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Oi! No politics in the Lounge! 
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there was a Commonwealth Games in Australia last week, it's all finished now.
Not sure why it's called common wealth with Aus and UK snatching up about half of all the medals, that hardly seems like sharing does it?
Another major [sporting] event gone by with not much news, the last Olympics came and went with barely any office talk, the Winter Olympics barely registered (in fact the lounge was the only place I saw it mentioned), elections seem to float past with barely a mention - the last USA election had less days of news than the one before.
- seems these days the hype is dropping for any event that's not about shopping or/and stupidity. Apple and Samsung new model releases get more cover than natural disasters - same thing every time: gormless idiots (some even with young children) camping outside stores in freezing wet weather days before the release.
I'll leave it there with this to ponder: When did "the news" stop being about news?
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Lopatir wrote: I'll leave it there with this to ponder: When did "the news" stop being about news?
When it became entertainment?
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Was it ever anything else?
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News programs and newspapers always had their editorial bias, but I can remember that they had serious content as recently as the '80s.
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It's going up and down, but I also "remember" the thirties. 
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I didn't say that all news organisations were professional; the "news" in dictatorships, for example, is whatever the dictator wants printed. However, for the most part, the MSM in Western countries used to be reasonably professional.
Today, even the front page is part of the Opinion pages 
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Personally I blame Rupert Murdoch. He started that trend.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: Rupert Murdoch
Nah, I would say Ted Turner.
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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While Turner took the lead in TV, via CNN, he was a decade and a half late in politicising media as such.
Murdoch went for newspapers and Magazines already in the sixties and seventies, but he didn't buy Fox until 1985.
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"Commonwealth" is the politician's way of getting the sheeples to believe they have wealth when in fact it should be called "CommonPoverty." 
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The real name of the "Commonwealth Games" is "The Empire Games" (the British Empire that is) but we don't like anyone else to know we still have an Empire - so we disguise it as a "Commonwealth" these days.
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Lopatir wrote: the last USA election had less days of news than the one before.
Are you sure?
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Lopatir wrote: Not sure why it's called common wealth with Aus and UK snatching up about half of all the medals, that hardly seems like sharing does it?
It is important to remind people who can, and who cannot, afford swimming pools and velodromes.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Yes it's pretty harmless, but it should probably have been posted in the soapbox anyway.
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Reason: Sunday...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Sunday closing isn't a "thing" in the UK any more, except for Easter day itself.
Needless to say, people panic buy because the supermarkets are closed for a single day...
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I don't call it "panic buying", just "stocking up for the winter/summer/Christmas/Easter/Halloween/Bank Holiday* ... (*delete not applicable)". 
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nowadays there are 24 hour supermarkets, so even less need to stock up.
except if the shops are going to close for a whole holy day,
holy mass batperson! that's 24 whole hours! What happens if ...
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And here I thought, what??? You posted an inappropriate message in the lounge???
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Marc Clifton wrote: inappropriate message in the lounge
There is such thing?
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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It took me a while ...  
BTW, this does not apply to me as some of our supermarkets are open
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