POLL: How Many Of You Are Aware?

[XXXNoahXXX]

The Holloway thread and thinking about Darfur, Sudan, etc. has made me think of how ridiculous it is that she gets so much attention and globabl tragedies don't get any attention. So much for a "global community." Soooo, how many of you were aware that over 5500 people were killed by an earthquake in Indonesia this past weekend?

[TheMainEvent]

No, but I'm not aware of anything that happened in America this weekend either.

[RayPowers]

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No, but I'm not aware of anything that happened in America this weekend either.

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Ditto. I don't think I listened to or read a lick of news in the past few days. I have had a DELIGHTFUL responsibility and stress free weekend.

Ray

[Dids]

I was, but only because my friend told me.

In that conversation I mentioned the following litmus test.

On the weekends I tend to only see sports news. So for something to be a BIG DEAL (like you'd think the death of 5K people would be) it has to be big enough to break into sports programming on show up on ESPN.com.

This didn't, as such I was not aware.

[deadbody]

I didn't do anything that would have had me aware of anything in the world this weekend.

[WayAbvPar]

I am aware. However, I heard about it on CNN International in my Vegas hotel room. Not sure how much it was being covered on the American version of CNN.

[Alobar]

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No, but I'm not aware of anything that happened in America this weekend either.

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same. I dont watch the news or read the paper or anything, so unless people I know are talking about it, I wont know about it

[daryn]

yes, but i'm in amsterdam right now

[sightless]

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I dont watch the news or read the paper or anything

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why not? Don't you wish to know what is going on in the world you live in?

[offTopic]

No, but I was on vacation this weekend, had no internet access, and looked at the tv for less than an hour between Friday night and Monday night.