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[NotAllThere]

Imagine a disaster that nobody knows about in a remote island. They will receive no relief shipments.

If a journalist reports on it, it is no longer in a state of 'not being know about', and will hopefully receive relief shipments. So the reporting by the journalist changes the state of the event.

Real life example. Michael Buerk reporting the Ethiopian famine in 1980. He's a bit of a hero there apparently.

[TestMangler]

Ignorant prick. You forgot the Flat Faced Fen ****ers of the East.

I was staying 'high level'. Sub-genres are not required here !

[Old Greg]

Anyone who lives south of Watford Gap Services is a F**kin' Cockney, anyone between Watford Gap Services and Carlisle is a 'Southern Fairy'.

Ignorant prick. You forgot the Flat Faced Fen ****ers of the East.

[TestMangler]

they’re not cockneys they’re mostly Eastern European. They seem to have a problem with socially distancing or understanding the ******* rules

Anyone who lives south of Watford Gap Services is a F**kin' Cockney, anyone between Watford Gap Services and Carlisle is a 'Southern Fairy'.

[BrilloPad]

Sexist

Diod she mean MaryPoppins?

[shaunbhoy]

Good the idiot woman has gone.

Sexist

[WTFH]

Imagine a disaster that nobody knows about in a remote island. They will receive no relief shipments.

If a journalist reports on it, it is no longer in a state of 'not being know about', and will hopefully receive relief shipments. So the reporting by the journalist changes the state of the event.

Ah yes, Schrödinger's Journalist Experiment.

Similar to the: If a tree falls in the woods and nothing hears it, does it make a noise?
or:
If a husband says something and his wife isn't around, is he still wrong?

[Old Greg]

That all sounds a bit quantum to me.

Or is it that if there is no-one there to record it, the event didn't happen? Sadly that's impossible nowadays with them darned mobile phones.

Imagine a disaster that nobody knows about in a remote island. They will receive no relief shipments.

If a journalist reports on it, it is no longer in a state of 'not being know about', and will hopefully receive relief shipments. So the reporting by the journalist changes the state of the event.

[ladymuck]

Journalism has a similar observer effect to physics. By reporting on an event, the journalism is changing it from an unreported event to a reported event.

That all sounds a bit quantum to me.

Or is it that if there is no-one there to record it, the event didn't happen? Sadly that's impossible nowadays with them darned mobile phones.

[shaunbhoy]

Nicely nicely, populist, pretending to not be trying in vain to protect the economy. It's going to be far better for everyone concerned if we get this virus under control, with speedy harsh measures than it is to pussy foot around to protect an economy we are arguably damaging by drawing this out.

The sooner we follow the lead of countries that have "flattened their curve" the sooner we will. But oh no, we're Boris's Britain, we don't need advice , supplies, or assistance from anyone.

Lived through a lot of these pandemics have you? Nah.....thought not. Get off your soapbox with your "wise-after-the-event" horsesh!t.

[Old Greg]

It's a bit like all the photos in the press showing people congregating, surely the photographer was also part of the crowd?

Journalism has a similar observer effect to physics. By reporting on an event, the journalism is changing it from an unreported event to a reported event.

[darmstadt]

Reminds me a of a manager complaining that every time he went for coffee, my team was there. Funny that. Every time we went for coffee, he'd turn up a few minutes later. I think he was lonely.

It's a bit like all the photos in the press showing people congregating, surely the photographer was also part of the crowd?

[NotAllThere]

If you know this, then you were also there...

Reminds me a of a manager complaining that every time he went for coffee, my team was there. Funny that. Every time we went for coffee, he'd turn up a few minutes later. I think he was lonely.

[ladymuck]

Cockney's don't come from Lambeth

#justSayin'

[darmstadt]

they’re not cockneys they’re mostly Eastern European. They seem to have a problem with socially distancing or understanding the ******* rules

If you know this, then you were also there...