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Inishowen tragedy all over the examiner again...

  • 17-07-2010 5:33pm
    #1
    SuperInfinity
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    No disrespect to the victims, but is it not a bit much to have so much coverage of this again today?

    Two full pages again today, four or five on other days. Front page Thursday, front page Friday, probably front page Wednesday as well. So much editorials and analysis and pages all about it.

    Every other week there are three or four people are dying on the roads, why do these people deserve so much attention?

    And why didn't they have any analysis how why there were 7 people fitted into one car? Why are there no grave warnings going out to young people not to fit more people than the cars were designed for into it?


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  • #2
    WesternNight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,286 ✭✭✭WesternNight


    SuperInfinity wrote: »
    No disrespect to the victims, but is it not a bit much to have so much coverage of this again today?

    Two full pages again today, four or five on other days. Front page Thursday, front page Friday, probably front page Wednesday as well. So much editorials and analysis and pages all about it.

    Every other week there are three or four people are dying on the roads, why do these people deserve so much attention?

    And why didn't they have any analysis how why there were 7 people fitted into one car? Why are there no grave warnings going out to young people not to fit more people than the cars were designed for into it?

    There were actually 8 in that car.


  • #3
    duckysauce
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭duckysauce


    dont read or pay for it if you dont like it


  • #4
    mike65
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    You can tell its July, had this happened during a busy political spell it would have been done and dusted when the last fatality was buried.


  • #5
    WesternNight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,286 ✭✭✭WesternNight


    BGP wrote: »
    I know it's still wrong, but, to be fair to them, they did that so that they wouldn't be drink driving. You must give them some respect for that.

    I'm sorry...and I mean no offence to family and friends etc...

    But every one of those people in that car endangered at best only themselves and each other...and at worst everyone else driving on that road at the same time as them. If that accident had happened with 5 people or fewer in that car (ie, maximum number of persons allowed safely), with everyone properly belted...then the damage done and lives lost would have more than likely been vastly reduced. That's regardless of who was to blame for the actual crash.

    I can understand that they may have been trying to do the right thing, but they were doing that while doing the wrong thing. Just a different wrong thing.


  • #6
    mrsdewinter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,184 ✭✭✭mrsdewinter


    Well... I'm going to disagree with you. These things aren't always a matter of raw maths. The death of one man - Gerry Ryan - a few weeks ago generated vastly more newsprint.
    Plus, there is genuine public interest in the story: we've all done crazy stuff as youngsters, and this accident prompted many of us to think, "There, but for the grace of God..."
    But I think one last factor, particularly in the case of The Examiner, which does not publish a Sunday edition, is the fact that weekend papers are now monster reads, with a push on chewy feature and analysis pieces which used to be the preserve of the Sunday papers alone.


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