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That's too bad. Now the hysterical media will have to find something else to get worked up about.

by cwhiz 6y ago

Robotbeat 6y ago
Oh, this was actually a fun disaster compared to almost anything else! If only we could live in a world where the worst international news story is a big boat being temporarily stuck with people making silly memes about it.
- cwhiz 6y ago
  It's not that it wasn't fun. It's that the media goes into absurd hyperbole on every subject. This boat was going to be stuck for weeks, and maybe forever! ...and now they'll shift to absurd hyperbole on some other topic that is potentially more damaging.
  - krisoft 6y ago
    The company tasked to salvage the ship said that they will use dredgers and tugs and will try to pull the ship free. They also said that if that doesn't work they will have to lighten the ship, which can take weeks. After that it was entirely fair and true to report that "it might take weeks to get the ship unstuck." Just because we got lucky and the simpler, faster, plan worked doesn't make such reporting hyperbolic.
    - cwhiz 6y ago
      The company said they could have it out within days, or it could take weeks. So what do media organizations report? "Suez Canal could be blocked for weeks." Always err on the side of hyperbole and extreme negativity.
jasperry 6y ago
I, for one, was thankful that we had something relatively non-polarizing in the news to discuss. "Stuck boat needs to get unstuck" is the kind of practical problem that people on both sides of the fence can agree on :)
- ceejayoz 6y ago
  My local newspaper's comments has people who think the boat's name is Evergreen, not Ever Given ("haha stupid media can't even get that right") and that it's a reference to Hillary Clinton's Secret Service code name and that Means Something™. (https://imgur.com/a/1CjsCsl https://imgur.com/a/1CjsCsl) Nothing's non-polarizing anymore.
  - cwhiz 6y ago
    The word "EVERGREEN" is painted on the side of the boat about 400 feet long and maybe 60 feet tall. I think it's fair to misinterpret that as the name of the boat, and not the name of the company that owns the boat. Especially so because the two names are so similar.
    - ceejayoz 6y ago
      It's fair to be confused over the name a little. It's a bit less fair to think it's Hillary Clinton's Secret Service codeword painted on the side of the ship to advertise child trafficking.

That's too bad. Now the hysterical media will have to find something else to get worked up about.

by cwhiz 6y ago

That's too bad. Now the hysterical media will have to find something else to get worked up about.

Oh, this was actually a fun disaster compared to almost anything else! If only we could live in a world where the worst international news story is a big boat being temporarily stuck with people making silly memes about it.

cwhiz 6y ago
It's not that it wasn't fun. It's that the media goes into absurd hyperbole on every subject. This boat was going to be stuck for weeks, and maybe forever! ...and now they'll shift to absurd hyperbole on some other topic that is potentially more damaging.
- krisoft 6y ago
  The company tasked to salvage the ship said that they will use dredgers and tugs and will try to pull the ship free. They also said that if that doesn't work they will have to lighten the ship, which can take weeks. After that it was entirely fair and true to report that "it might take weeks to get the ship unstuck." Just because we got lucky and the simpler, faster, plan worked doesn't make such reporting hyperbolic.
  - cwhiz 6y ago
    The company said they could have it out within days, or it could take weeks. So what do media organizations report? "Suez Canal could be blocked for weeks." Always err on the side of hyperbole and extreme negativity.

jasperry 6y ago

I, for one, was thankful that we had something relatively non-polarizing in the news to discuss. "Stuck boat needs to get unstuck" is the kind of practical problem that people on both sides of the fence can agree on :)

ceejayoz 6y ago
My local newspaper's comments has people who think the boat's name is Evergreen, not Ever Given ("haha stupid media can't even get that right") and that it's a reference to Hillary Clinton's Secret Service code name and that Means Something™. (https://imgur.com/a/1CjsCsl https://imgur.com/a/1CjsCsl) Nothing's non-polarizing anymore.
- cwhiz 6y ago
  The word "EVERGREEN" is painted on the side of the boat about 400 feet long and maybe 60 feet tall. I think it's fair to misinterpret that as the name of the boat, and not the name of the company that owns the boat. Especially so because the two names are so similar.
  - ceejayoz 6y ago
    It's fair to be confused over the name a little. It's a bit less fair to think it's Hillary Clinton's Secret Service codeword painted on the side of the ship to advertise child trafficking.