Dear Everybody,
Can we please stop using the term 'Ground Zero' now?
If something is sensational and dramatic, it is sensational and dramatic on it's own. It does not need you to hype it up with out of context terminology.
To be clear, the hotel room that Melissa Doyle stayed in the other night was not Ground Zero, it was in fact, a hotel room.
Thank you for your time and cooperation.
B. McLaughlin
Huldra Forsvant (Theodor Kittelsen)
Huldra Forsvant (Theodor Kittelsen)
5 comments:
Oh yes. I blogged on the sensationalism yesterday. Very over the Ground Zeroing and hysterical reporting going on. I got so annoyed when Melissa Doyle was showing the camera the hotel room with all the pillows and lollies in it that I went back to the ABC. So then I didn't actually end up seeing this, but I heard that then they crossed to somebody looking at a flattened banana plantation and saying "here are the infant bananas that will never get a chance to grow..."
Please. Enough already. If there's no news then get in there and help them clean up the mess.
I'm over the commercial television beat up as well, I especially hate how they didn't run there advertised new programs. With digital television they have 2 or 3channels yet on the secondary channels they show repeats of old shows. If they have to do a rolling coverage replace the repeats not the new shows.
Hmm, according to Wikipedia, the term originally meant the point on the ground immediately below an exploding bomb (from the nuclear bombs dropped in WWII) and now refers to the geographical centre of a area of greatest destruction for any major disaster - bomb, earthquake, epidemics...
An intact hotel room probably doesn't qualify unless it's one of those oddities where one house has been blown away and the next door property is intact.
Doesn't Ground Zero nowadays literally refer to the site of the 9/11 attack? Or is that just to Americans?
amen.
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