Why the media are fear mongers - ask me how! - Beyond Tiki

TW Trader Woody Member Tiki Manor, Forest of Bowland,UK Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 2301	TW Trader Woody Posted posted on Wed, Oct 20, 2004 6:01 AM On 2004-10-20 05:51, tikifish wrote: Not only was SARS a fake fear mongering story, the fake fear mongering cost Toronto millions of dollars in lost tourist revenue, and screwed the city for an entire year. I think about 17 people died of SARS here, hell, more people probabaly died of slipping in the bathtub, and yet people were showing up at Pearson sirport in face masks like we were all ebola monkeys here. Arrrgh dont get me started.... As someone who had their sandwiches taken off them and had to walk over a special sticky mat at Madrid airport at the peak of the Foot & Mouth scare, I feel your pain. I also noticed that when it came out that lots of US cattle were infected with BSE (mad cow disease), the media suddenly started a scare about farmed salmon from Scotland and Canada. The BSE story just vanished into thin air. Same goes for France - many many infected cattle, but you still can't buy British beef there, despite incredibly stringent regulations over here. A good scare story about another country can do wonders for your own economy. Trader Woody

On 2004-10-20 05:51, tikifish wrote:
Not only was SARS a fake fear mongering story, the fake fear mongering cost Toronto millions of dollars in lost tourist revenue, and screwed the city for an entire year. I think about 17 people died of SARS here, hell, more people probabaly died of slipping in the bathtub, and yet people were showing up at Pearson sirport in face masks like we were all ebola monkeys here. Arrrgh dont get me started....

As someone who had their sandwiches taken off them and had to walk over a special sticky mat at Madrid airport at the peak of the Foot & Mouth scare, I feel your pain.

I also noticed that when it came out that lots of US cattle were infected with BSE (mad cow disease), the media suddenly started a scare about farmed salmon from Scotland and Canada. The BSE story just vanished into thin air. Same goes for France - many many infected cattle, but you still can't buy British beef there, despite incredibly stringent regulations over here.

A good scare story about another country can do wonders for your own economy.

Trader Woody

Post #120543 by Trader Woody on Wed, Oct 20, 2004 6:01 AM