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Raymond Island resident Sophie Nolan sets the media straight:
Of the numerous media reports about the recent East Gippsland floods and particularly about Raymond Island, many were exaggerated. An example of such reporting: “Twenty Raymond Island evacuees were suffering from mild hypothermia.” Fact: Two people who left the island to go to the refuge centre were cold and wet. Some reports were simply wrong, such as the one that said the army was making food drops on to the island. But the report that caused the most comment here was factually correct. The news reporter said that “Raymond Island was surrounded by water”.
(Via Dan Lewis)
What? An island surrounded by water? That must mean GLOBAL WARMING! Quick, run for cover, or the nearest Live Earth Concert….
Posted by Fast Eddie on 2007 07 16 at 08:13 PM • permalinkAn island almost surrounded by water is called a paenaeinsula, in Latin. I remember it from my first Latin reader.
Brittania est insula. Europa non est insula. Italia paenae est insula. Italia est paenaeinsula.
With that, and the English word order, they hoped to help the students along, I gather. Alas, Latin is no longer taught in junior high schools, and so you get reporters as they are today.
I’d have gotten their interest with some passage about swords (gladius) and scabbards (vagina) but who am I to say what would interest eighth graders. He sheathes his sword (gladium in vaginam recondere)
My personal theory is that so many of the talking heads on TV are bona fide morons that this requires the intelligent be excluded because they make the moron’s moronity so obvious, leading to the relentless dumbing down of the medium.
If you want intelligent people on TV these days, you have to find a footie show.
That reporter was a real Age-content provider.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 07 16 at 08:27 PM • permalinkMy apologies. Please ignore my last post - I must cut down on these ad-hominem attacks.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 07 16 at 08:29 PM • permalinkSpeaking of Age content providers, who the hell allowed Traceee to have a week off?
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 07 16 at 08:34 PM • permalink#11.
Good lord Margos Maid, i read that way too fast, it looked like ‘who the hell allowed Tracee to have a wank off?”
If you want to know where she is, she has a radio show on Tuesdays on 3RRR. should be on now…Posted by carpefraise on 2007 07 16 at 08:43 PM • permalinkBah- wrong again, Trace continued to provide content this weekend.
Apparently democracy in Victoria is dying because something she doesn’t want to happen is happening. If you ask me, democracy died when they starting trimming the rind off bacon.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 07 16 at 08:45 PM • permalinkWell, to be fair, it used to be Raymond Peninsula.
When I was younger we used to talk about Raymond Continent.
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2007 07 16 at 08:54 PM • permalinkI had to do a little research here, but finally I see that the so-called “Raymond Island” has in deed been cut-off by global warming.
Oh No, we are all going to
drowndie. Runs around in circles waving arms in the air.Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 07 16 at 08:56 PM • permalink#13 I initially saw “Speaking of the aged incontinent”, thinking this was a reference to the diarrhea that the Age puts out.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 07 16 at 09:00 PM • permalinkHow in the hell, can The Age fairly report on the Middle East, when they can’t even report simple news accurately.
I am reminded of when a reporter for the US Today Show was embarrassed bigtime for exaggerating flooding.
OT
A spectacular demonstration of Blair’s Law at work here.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 07 16 at 09:39 PM • permalinkHey, if this isn’t proof of global warming, then I don’t know what is.
#25 - ‘Eew, what’s that?’” said Colwell, who works for the U.S. Geological Survey in El Portal. “It smelled like a horse corral on a hot afternoon.”
A budding Raymond Chandler.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 07 16 at 10:08 PM • permalinkImus had a couple of nice audio clips with Michelle Kosinski, the flooding canoe lady
Anna Nicole Smith Story
Puzzled by Train Jon Benet StoryThe train horn is a Nathan 5-Chime.
O/T - I just visited a site I haven’t been before (completely SFW) and got a good laugh out of the warning on the upper left side.
We all know the feeling, I’m sure.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 07 16 at 10:17 PM • permalinkhttp://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/
I say everyone, media watching has done an islamic reuters by changing the lettering on Sunrise’s shirt to get hot tips on the right hand side of the page.
“Tell media watch” must have worked the advertising on the web as MV dobbed in Tim b.
Confidentiality is definitely guaranteed.
Let’s not get too worried about this, folks. I mean it’s not like a continent has been surrounded by water, or anything like that. That’s when you should worry.
Posted by andycanuck on 2007 07 16 at 11:29 PM • permalinkWhat 30+ posts and no lame jokes about Raymond Incontinent yet?
Oh…Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 07 16 at 11:32 PM • permalink#6, Rhhardin - You must have had the same introductory Latin text I had. That sounds very familiar. For what it’s worth, taking two years of Latin was the best training I ever got in English grammar.
Posted by Bruce Lagasse on 2007 07 17 at 01:11 AM • permalinkNow you see what happens when you use meters instead of feet. The altitude of Raymond Island is 3 ft., but 0 meters! It’s the difference between Raymond Island and Raymond Reef.
So Mikey wants to see the 100 videos of the alleged planed hitting the alleged Pentagon. Hell, I’ll show him the many photographs of my brother (USN, retired) who was working there that day. Let Mikey explain how my brother ended up with those alleged burns.
I am so sick of that asshole and all his friends making these accusations, lying in that obnoxious Truther way of theirs. May they all choke to death on their own vicious bile.
Even worse, the island is surrounded by rampaging Chilean Sea Bass. If only someone would do something about those bastids…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 17 at 09:58 AM • permalink
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“Raymond Island was surrounded by water”.
My God!