Friday, December 04, 2009
Bang
The media can be very misleading. A story running on the BBC this morning is that a man has been shot in Manchester for a laptop. This has the effect of making you think "gosh, scary world, where you can be shot for something so small with such a low market value". The story is running on the tickertape at the bottom of the screen and was mentioned four times in ten minutes. Only once did they explain the entire story, which is that the man was shot for £10k and a laptop. A very different story. In fact the laptop is probably a complete red herring. This is a fine example of just how the media presents the world in a scary, frightening manner in order that we all feel insecure. Why would they do that? Because it makes you watch more news, you want to be sure that the ravening hordes aren't coming down your street.
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Apparently he worked for a money transfer company so the laptop may have lots of financial details on it, that sort of thing.
MANCHESTER IS NOT SCARY. Though it is usually quite rainy, so if you are scared of water, that may be slightly inaccurate.
If that is true then it still rather proves my point. He was not robbed for the laptop per se. Walking down the street with a laptop does not get you shot. He was shot because of the information.
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