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- Newsgroups: soc.bi
- Path: sparky!uunet!uunet.ca!smd
- From: smd@uunet.ca (Sean Doran)
- Subject: Re: Bloody Media
- Keywords: aaarrgghhh!!!!
- References: <12271@scott.ed.ac.uk>
- Organization: UUNET Canada
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 00:41:01 GMT
- Message-ID: <C0K9wE.84D@uunet.ca>
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- bethan@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Bethan Davies) writes:
-
- >1) On the headlines they said 'Rudolf Nureyev is dead'. Not 'has died at
- >the age of...' or 'has died of....' which is what they usually say.
- >That (spot the linguist)
-
- Pass the paintbrush. Can I stripe you, too? ;)
-
- Some interesting biased language crept into the radio and TV news
- here, too, and it was very disappointing, although not terribly
- surprising, unfortunately.
-
- On the bright side, at least one TV news report was full of glowing
- admiration and praise through most of it, and featured Karen Kain and
- other people associated with the National Ballet of Canada saying some
- very nice things about Nureyev. They also played an archive clip of
- him in fine spirits explaining that his country is dance and that his
- nationality is ballet.
-
- However, they did dwell on the cause of death a bit more than they did
- during the obit. segment for Dizzy Gillespie. They did, however,
- describe the latter's cause of death as pancreatic cancer.
-
- >Why is it that if you die of drug/alcohol abuse (Parker, Dylan Thomas,
- >Jim Morrison etc) You become romanticised and a 'tortured artist',
- >yet if you die of more prosaic means (AIDS) you are labelled as some
- >kind of pervert.....
-
- Well, we can all try to change this, no?
-
- Sean.
-