amy winehouse vs. norway tragedy...

anyone else think it's backwards that her death seems to already be eclipsing the gunning down of nearly 100 people? what a world, what a world...

:grumble:

No ****. Who the hell cares about some 27 year old super-drugie who pissed an enormous amount of talent away. Screw her... The situation in Norway was horrible.

How insensitive. You wouldn't be saying who cares if it was someone you loved. This sentiment is the exact reason people die from addiction. People do too much blaming of the person and not enough helping and treating their problem.

I don't watch corporate news so I would have no idea about who is getting more press. I know my thoughts have been on the people of Norway. Sadly I have been waiting for something like this to happen for some time, I just didn't expect it to happen in Norway. There is so much hate and propaganda being pushed around and people spread it around not considering how it could affect others down the road.

As for Amy Winehouse it is sad. Some people have a harder time quitting drugs for a reason and it is NOT because they're bad people. For instance there is a link between ADHD and addiction and how the brain reacts to rewards. That's just a fact. I am not saying that is how it is for everyone, but to pretend that everyone is the same is nieve.

Well sheesh people we can have a heart. Both instances are sad and could have been avoided. I don't think either one is "more important" than the other. Both things happen all the time in the world.

The media only latches on to stories they think people will care about, apparently they think people care about a cracked out drug addicted flash in the pan pop singer, than a terrorist attack.(you'd think the USA would care about them more, even though it happened in another country, and I mean terrorist not in the typical sense the media paints them to be)

Gooooooood bless americaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

i feel for amy's family i truely do, but i admit to having little sympathy for amy herself, whilst i know that addiction is hard to beat, she had so many chances to turn her life around and had a much stronger support network than a lot of other addicts do and she wasted those chances and i think this is a great shame.

but i have been very annoyed with the ammount of coverage her death has received in comparison to the deaths in norway and china, especially when 2 seperate news reports (on different channels) have reported it as being the main news this weekend, one (bbc3) even said it was the only news that weekend on one of its reports on saturday

I think it is really awful about both Norway and Amy Winehouse.

It is horrific what happened to the teens on that Island and what happened in Oslo. You wouldn't dare think about being in their positions and i feel horrible for them, their friends and families.

However, it is also awful what happened to Amy. She has a horrible addiction. She'd been to rehab before. I'm sure this wasn't the way she had dreamt her life would go. I'm sure her family and friends are just as heartbroken. I know people with addictions and it takes such a grip, they have to fight constantly for control.

My thoughts and prayers go out to all of them....

Unfortunately, it's the paper's job to print what people are going to read. If we didn't buy papers like this, they wouldn't print them, and yes, it is very sad.

Agree with this. The loss of any life is sad, in my opinion.

I choose not to compare as they are two totally different situations and IMO not comparable.

Who can compare the senseless, random murder of almost 100 people to the death of someone who was addicted to drugs?

I am sympathetic to AW - I am a recovering addict myself (I was a smoker for 15 years!! I am only too aware how hard it is to KNOW something is going to kill you but still wanting / needing to do it anyway)

In fact many of us here to some level have an addictive relationship with food so we should show compassion and understanding instead of hatred. Yes AW was an addict but I don't think anyone is seriously suggesting that her death is more "important" that what happened in Norway??

So as I say wont even discuss AW and Norway in the same sentence any more - they are not to be pitted against each other IMO.

(and just to advise that here is the UK the awful event in Norway is top news story online, on the radio, on the TV and on the vast majorty of news papaers!)

Here's a headline that is filed under my Who Cares column.

"Music stars who died at the age of 27"

If only the news media would stick with just reporting the news instead of sensationalizing it.