How Many Cute Friggin' Pandas Does it Take???!!! ...

...to divert our attention away from essential news.

My God, if the same repetitive media attention given a newborn panda was given to important stories -- just imagine how the press could once again lead in honest discussion!

But no. The press (by its silence) allows infections to fester.

Just teasing ya! :)

...There is such a thing as Pandaware though.

...I was able to kill 2 of 4 of my miscreant threads ;)

I thought it was funny. You were miffed that "panda" news was news and keeping other things off the screen and your post (I am guessing a glitch, usually a redundant "burp") got posted four times.

BTW...I agree with you. I love animals. Pandas are cute (mean as hell, but still cute), but they should not replace real news.

On Comedy Central, the "Mind of Mencia" made a similar comment about this topic. Talking about nonsense or fluff when real issues are all over the place.

Just so you know...seeing your "ire" (I don't think you were that pissed off) and then 4 posts about pandas, made me giggle. :)

I look forward to the human interest story; but it should never be broadcast over & over as news. Try posting a Panda story here in LBN.

Like you suggested, I'm pissed off that breaking news is being reported every second -- while we're getting reruns of mundane editorials hourly.

When have you ever seen a major broadcast news outlet address PNAC?

"Bones" is a great new series on Fox about a forensic anthropologist. Tonight, she (the star ("Bones"), based on an actual person) had to testify as an expert witness. However, she was told by the jury consultant that she was a 'dry drag of a person.' The jury would never relate to her. Her (the anthropologist) thoughts were that only truth mattered, but the jury consultant said that 'likability' was important too. She ("Bones") was too technical, even the judge was falling asleep during her testimony. Whereas I would be fascinated by that kind of precision, most would not. It is no different in the media. Too much technical information, or facts, are lost on most. There has to be DRAMA!

Face it, how many people will watch NOVA or National Geographic Explorer as opposed to "Jerry Springer?" In this day and age, people want 'fluff' not facts. Can you blame them? With the pressures they face on a day to day basis, I sure most don't really want to know what is really happening in the world...thus, the number of Rethugs we have in this country.

It is up to those of us that can think that must push for the truth, no matter how uncomfortable it may be.

To use another TV analogy (I love watching TV), tonight, on L&O:SVU they had an Anthrax scare, but didn't want to report that to the media. I looked at my partner and said: "Isn't it odd that when a real threat presents itself, they would rather cover it up and keep us in the dark, but they (the government) love to broadcast shit like, "the terror alert level is ORANGE "because someone, somewhere, at sometime MAY blow-up, kill, trap, or harm us." The real alert will never hit the media because it may cause a "panic," but a vague 'threat' is pumped into our airways non-stop.

The nature of the media is determined by the nature of the public. The majority of the public don't want to know the truth.

Oh,...:(

Like most marsupials, they have a mean streak. But some, they are just babies! So sweet.

When I was in NOLA, before the storms, the Pandas there were behind bullet proof glass, but they took a-liking to me. I sat on the other side of the glass and they sat down, even the sick one came out to greet me. It just tells me that animals really can sense when humans care for them. The keeper laughed at me because I could get the pandas to act silly, when they had been reclusive for almost a week. (I have hairy arms and legs, so I am guessing the bears thought one of them had escaped! :))

My family has been watching the pandas at San Diego for months. I thought pandas were marsupials, my husband said they are not. Then I saw the panda Bai Yun give birth and realized my husband was right! Here's a page from the National Zoo:

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/GiantPandas/FrequentlyAskedQuestions/default.cfm

feel threatened - provoked or surprised - but when they do, they can do damage with those razor sharp teeth and claws.

They tend to avoid the thing that angers them or surprises them - by curling up in a ball and covering up their eyes , or scampering up a tree

but I wouldn't want to be the test subject on anger management for a giant panda :)


edit: info on Pandas and their aggression

http://www.pandapaws.org/pages/331616/index.htm

we need to pay close attention to what they're trying to sneak in on us.

Can anyone think of a time when this admin did not have an agenda other than what was stated???

Hey in the Lounge the Panda is the man, man.

i love Tai Shan as much as anyone. :loveya:
he IS da man!

i've been watching him since the day he was born, and i think many good things come out of interest in him, interest in endangered animals in general,,, but his cute little butt WAS a little over-exposed yesterday. :blush:

~da man is currently sleeping, on his back, in case you're wondering~



edited brackets out which had an unintended disappearing effect.

at a few million dollars. Meanwhile the chinese kill 2 million dogs and cats a year for "fur" and sell it to us as "another" kind of fur. So much hypocrisy!

we are researching to try to Save the Pandas!

and from what i've read, seems to me like progress is being made. :)