Re: Train Accident in Blue Mountains

["John Hudson" <trammie@bigpond.com>]

Makes you wonder about history, doesn't 1t?

John Hudson
Brisbane, Australia

Ian Jelf <ian@bluebadge.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> In article <3846bfd2@news.iprolink.co.nz>, David McLoughlin <davemcl@AXE
> *THISiprolink.co.nz> writes
> >The news media may not be perfect but without it politicians, the
> >bureaucracy and big business would indeed be able to treat us all as
> >mushrooms.
> I wouldn't like you to think that I'd somehow want us to be "without"
> the news media;  in a post I've made today to another newsgroup I made
> the point that there are good, conscientious reporters who uncover
> wrongs, report the facts and give voice to those who would otherwise
> have none.
>
> The fact remains, though, that newspapers and even TV here in Britain
> were screaming "70, 80 90 DEAD?" when there turned out to be 31 at
> Ladbroke Grove.
>
> They were carrying demands for an enquiry (which would happen
> statutorily anyway, under full media scrutiny) as though they could
> achieve this themselves.
>
> And elsewhere in this thread, someone has told of a Channel 10 Sydney
> reporter talking about the wrecked engine "still steaming".
>
> When I see inaccuracies in the reporting of subjects I *do* know
> something about, it worries me to think of what I hear on subject I know
> little or nothing about.
>
>
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