If A CEO Dies At An Airlines Should All The Flights Be Stopped or Canceled?

[orleans]

would you understand that the employees are simply too sad and unhappy to do their job?

what about at the electric company?

if a top dog at the electric company dies suddenly and unexpectedly will you understand that is the reason the lights are off for the weekend? (no power, no tv, no ac)?

what about the gas company? can they turn off the gas in the middle of winter, or at any other time, because someone who ran the utility is gone and everyone needs some time getting over it?

the post office closing?

the grocery store (not the family run one, but the big chain store)

the car production lines?

the public schools in your town?

your church?

the chain pharmacy where you get your medicine filled?

just wondering. for those who thought it was perfectly understandable that the news stopped for the weekend, and that the rest of us were being selfish assholes because we thought it was wrong for the news to stop reporting the news, i'm just wondering if the same understanding would be applied for the rest of the country/businesses/industries/utilities? and, if no,then why not? why is the media the only exception? (raise your hand if you knew--in a timely fashion--that des moines had been evacuated)

[NightWatcher]

1. the news usualy stops on MSNBC over the weekends for prison documentaries

Let this remind everyone that they need to seek out REAL NEWS SOURCES. Unfortunately the web is the best place for news.

[JuniperLea]

2. Pft! DU all but shut down...

Threads everywhere... in every section... I still don't understand why they were being posted in GD: P.

Well... to take your lead... A friend of mine is a former Democratic candidate for POTUS... he lives in Cedar Glen, IA... there are floods in Cedar Glen right now... so, naturally, I'm off to post about the floods in the midwest in GD: P!

If we use the "Kevin Bacon Laws of Separation" then I guess everything should be posted in that section!

Thanks, orleans! I've got it all figured out now.



:silly:

[Lerkfish]

3. interesting analogy, though flawed.

a better analogy would be why is the funeral of the funeral director taking so long as all his funeral director friends make long eulogies?
because journalists actually care about the deaths of other journalists, and are therefore more likely to think their feelings are more important because they control what gets said on the news.

its more a case of who controls the information. the press will more loudly laud the passing of their own, because, who's going to stop them?

same reason an unnatural number of movies are made about writers.
Because they are written by.... writers.

[AnneD]

4. Honey.....

they stopped reporting the news in 1998 (or whenever the Monica Lewinski story(?) broke).:sarcasm:

[SergeyDovlatov]

5. This! (most likely much earlier than 1998) n/t

[Gato Moteado]

6. no, but airfares should instantly be cut by about 50% since they don't have to pay his inflated....

...salary anymore