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salsabil5
09 Jan 10 21:20
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The media luv it...i mean really really luv it
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Report Klaus Kinski • January 9, 2010 10:19 PM GMT
Chaos ! Outrage ! It wasn't like this during the war ! Panic !

That sort of thing. Bad news and scaremongering sells.
Report Dobbo • January 9, 2010 10:21 PM GMT
blloks.Its tough out there
Report rustyboy • January 9, 2010 10:22 PM GMT
local news stations dream

they love to be important and give people travel advice.

national news love it because they always have someone new to talk to etc so they dont have to regurgitate the same crap for 7 hours.
Report Dick Quax • January 9, 2010 10:24 PM GMT
To be fair, it's been a newsworthy story. It's -12 again tonight ffs.
Report Dobbo • January 9, 2010 10:26 PM GMT
I travelled back to Belgium yesterday because of forecast.I was due to come back on Sunday.I needed a tow out of my lane in Hereford and was dug out of a car park in Folkstone yesterday morning.I see on the news today Kent has heavy snowfalls. Where is the hype?
Report STEPTOES YARD • January 9, 2010 10:28 PM GMT
I drove home last night at 12 and it was unreal

Never driven in conditions like it in my life and never want to again

The main road leading onto the motorway was covered in about 6 inches of snow.
Report Klaus Kinski • January 9, 2010 10:41 PM GMT
Dick, Dobbo and Steptoe. I agree with you. The poorly written point I was trying to put forward was that the media are reactionary. For example, a Local Authority stops skating on a lake and the media say that this is the nanny state gone mad, then somebody dies when the ice breaks they say they it was the local authorities fault.
Report Dobbo • January 9, 2010 10:43 PM GMT
I quite like the Tories blaming the government. This Government may be carp but do we really expect them to have 10 billion tonnes of grit stockpiled somewhere.
Report RLKingPunter • January 10, 2010 12:14 AM GMT
There were pics of the 1947 winter in our paper today ( Yorkshire Post ).Trust me, this snow is nothing like that.
There were drifts up to 20ft thick in the dales, 70 sheep froze to death, villages were cut off for up to 6 weeks, people boiled snow for water and starving Foxes attacked farmstock in broad daylight.The snow fell late jan and was around till april !
Report donemyconkers • January 10, 2010 12:16 AM GMT
Have had zero problems. Not sure what all the fuss is about.
Report Klaus Kinski • January 10, 2010 12:23 AM GMT
donemyconkers 10 Jan 01:16


Have had zero problems. Not sure what all the fuss is about.


I've never had cancer. Not sure what all the fuss is about.
Report donemyconkers • January 10, 2010 12:27 AM GMT
Wow - way to blow stuff out of proportion. You should be a news editor
Report Klaus Kinski • January 10, 2010 1:01 AM GMT
Donemyconkers, are you saying that because it never happened to you that it didn't happen to anyone else?
Report positively4thsteet • January 10, 2010 6:10 AM GMT
It is all pathetic. not exactly the spirit that won the war ffs. People are being fed the panic/chaos etc by the media, and they fall for it.

let's face it, it really isn't that bad.
Report salsabil5 • January 10, 2010 10:08 AM GMT
Snow is thawing here....canaryboy will be DEVASTATED
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