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Headlines? Turkeys being culled in Norfolk!

Way down the list of bulletins, British Soldier killed in Iraq!

You tell me?

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The soldiers who go to Iraq have a reasonable chance of getting killed in action and if 'the unthinkable' should happen, they come home heroes. The only thing really marking the occassion is this private being DOA number 100. The deaths of Iraqi's comes much further down the list.

The deaths of some 200.000 big birds is rather closer to home, and dare you really say the life of one man is worth more than 200.000 turkeys? I don't.

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Read it again: all I am saying is that I don't say the life of man is worth more than the life of 200.000 turkeys. You obviously are, but why would I insult you over your opinion? You just go on watching the news on telly, I'll read a few newspapers and give a toss about what really matters. Report It

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PS: Thanks for all the insults, but despite your very expressive daftness I'd still rather read a newspaper than shout back. Report It

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I think you will find that those turkeys were slaughtered in SUFFOLK.At least get your facts straight before posting on here you moron Report It

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i was too busy washing my nickers

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oh god now when birds take priority over humans that's bad, musta been some turkey that wrote the news!

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The 100th soldier killed, bit of a milestone don't you think? I guess the media think its old news, not to his family though.

I can't offer rhyme nor reason for this.... perhaps the Turkeys were Muslim turkeys as this seems to be able to jump up the priority order!

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Good point but you know how they do like to spead mass hysteria if at all possible - don't want to waste an opportunity to discuss a possible but extremely unlikely 'pandemic' blah blah

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well a pandemic is quite serious you know

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I think you have to look at it in context. The deadly H5N1 virus found in a turkey (farm) which can potentially spread to humans. Naturally the kneejerk reaction is a bit of panic, people wonder if it is safe to eat turkey or chicken.

The soldier being killed, although another tragic and needless loss, does not grab the headlines, because the chances are you're not going to be killed by a roadside bomb or shot by the Taleban in the middle of Norfolk.

Might appear at first to be an odd prioritisation of news, but what's the old saying about 'starting with your own back yard'?

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thats just typical of the crap we have to put up with here . Our boys and girls serving abroad should be first .I think people in general have had enough of this country s so called higherarchy

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I missed the BBC News, I was watching the ITV news.

The Turkeys being culled is very important. If the disease spreads then you can forget eating Chicken, Turkey or any bird in this country for the next year at least. This will cripple the companies that produce these foods and make a lot of them go bust. Imagine every Chicken place in the whole of Britain being shut. No more Chicken or Turkey being on sale in any restaurant.

I am a Vegetarian, so the Turkeys were going to be killed anyway. The impact if this spreads will be enormous.

Second on the news headlines was hopefully, the British soldier who gave his life for his country. My prayers go out to his family.

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Because the media can't cause mass hysteria with a story about a soldier being killed thats why!!

Blue this is for you...

A current influenza outbreak, formally called H5N1 after two distinctive proteins on the flu virus (but commonly referred to as bird or avian flu), has so far mainly affected birds. Ten countries閳ユ彑hailand, Viet Nam, Indonesia, Cambodia, China, Azerbaijan, Djibouti, Eygypt, Iraq and Turkey閳ユ従ave reported a total of 251 human cases of the H5N1 flu since December 2003. At least 141 people have died, usually after being sick for a week or two at most. These people are thought to have caught the disease by contact with infected birds. There has been only one case of human-to-human transmission of the virus.

Did you see the part where it included Turkey and the total number of deaths between all these countries is 141 in the last 3 years.

Now who's kidding themselves.

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We seem to have become desensetized to killing nowadays.

Something is far wrong with our society when the death of turkeys,which are after all being raised as food, can cause more outrage than the death of men %26amp; women in our armed forces.

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i agree,but with wall -wall coverage of the war ,it is time we heard something else,both are serious.

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The guy who read the news item about the british soldier, read it as if it was a bit of trivia. I was disgusted.

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I totally agree with you its disgusting that our soldiers are losing their life's on a daily basis and get mentioned somewhere in and amongst the news bulletins and turkeys get top billing, bring our soldiers back and stuff the turkeys I say.

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As a journalist, I'd agree that by any normal logic, British soldiers dying in Iraq - for what, again? - should probably take precedence over Turkey culling in Norfolk.

But there's a dreadful, slightly twisted logic to the art of news presentation which dictates the scarier a thing is, the closer it is to home, and the NEWER it is, the further up the news agenda it goes.

The point is, in news terms, sick as it is, soldiers dying in Iraq right now is shrugworthy. The audience don't understand what they're doing out there in the first place, and the sense of public outrage had been damped down by time - people get - and I know even as I say this that is sounds horribly Machievellian - they get bored of things quickly. The Iraq war is horrible and wrong - everyone and his turkey knows that. But it's been going on so long now - with people getting killed on every side - that people don't have the energy to get properly incensed about it en masse any more. Is that right? Hell no. Is it a fact? I think so. So people dying in Iraq has only a minimal audience impact factor anymore.

Meanwhile - Norfolk is within the country. The issue is food. The issue is disease. The issue can therefore be blown up in to a sci-fi nightmare of pandemic proportions to whip people up into a frenzy of excitement. And let's not forget, this is a Bernard Matthews farm, and surely to all the gods, only children and students and bachelors eat Bernard Matthews products, so you can incense a whole load of parents with this story. And the pictures are much easier to get, and tell the story much more simply, than anything you can get to illustrate the hatefully complicated story of Iraq.

It's a sad truth that our news media really has become this lazy and this weighted towards the more scary stories in the world. But it's a truth nonetheless.

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Well because of those frigging birds:we are obligated now to have all that can fly shut in doors in the Netherlands.

Bird migration starts soon.

Ever seen or been in a pandemic area?

I guess not.

Of course that soldier being shot is horrible:last year:hundreds of innocent people died of th bird flew:ever crossed your mind?

Saw your queen today in the Hague.

Visiting the PEACE PALACE.

Hope SHE DID NOT BRING THE BIRD FLEW AS PRESENT.

LOL

Greetings:Blue.

You are joking last year in Turkey alone died hundreds of the bird flew,you are kidding yourself now aren't you.Get your facts straight .And howabout those innocent Iraquis getting killed every day?

Thousands of them already.

Because of socalled mass destruction weapons?Who started attacking who by the way?

You just forgot.

That's the easy way out.

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i agree with what u say,the sooner there home the better,(shouldnt even be there ,my opinion)send blair %26amp; bush out there

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I think we are fed up with the Iraq war and Big Brother so gassing turkeys is a nice change.