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Originally Posted by casstony
Human populations anywhere are very easily manipulated, a fact that is demonstrated repeatedly through history. Any country can be made to look bad by it's politicians, bankers, corporations or powerful interest groups.
However if you travel to the US and meet the people they really are much the same as Australians.
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Quite right Tony, unfortunately the media have no reason to publicise the lives of everyday Americans who, like us, are just going about the business of living normal lives.
Much of the issue is the way media beat up stories to sell their wares. Without publicity many of these horrible events may not happen. The recent trend is for people to post their rants on twitter/facebook etc and then go out to do their crime or to film their crime and then post it on Youtube.
There have been numerous incidents where someone has been ridiculed on social media and has then taken their revenge on those who posted about them.
The older I get the less I want to see "news", Twitter, Facebook etc.
I am even getting tired of these debates on General Chat here
