When music is added to the news

I had never heard of autotune until my son showed me this video – a musical remix of a news story about a bed intruder. First he showed me the original interview of the victim and her brother, and then this musical remix. Whoever set this to music sure has a talent! The tune is catchy, too!

Gold is slipping

I heard on the news this morning that the price of gold was starting to fall.  That is an indication that the economy is starting to recover!  People invest in gold when they are afraid to get involved in Stock Trading.  The financial news reporter was explaining that recent business reports indicated that there was an increase in new employment in December, so the consumers have more money to spend.  That in turn is good for the optimism required for people to get back onto their Online Broker accounts and start ordering more “buy” orders and fewer “sell order” on their Online Trading sites.

I was a little bit confused by this news because it seems to me that I learned in my business courses that stocks go up when companies lay off workers.  That seems to be a contradiction to what is happening now.  Well, either way I like to diversify my investments!

Ski lift failure

I was astonished to hear on the news that there was a ski lift failure at Sugarloaf Mountain in Maine earlier today.  I have skied Sugarloaf Mountain many times (it is my all time favorite mountain to ski) and it is very disturbing to hear that the lift cable slipped off of the wheels!  I’ve heard that several people were injured.  I hope that none of them are seriously injured.  And I hope that they can all return to enjoying skiing – it is such a fun sport!  What a scary thing to happen!

Crazy Weather

We just missed the horrible snow storm that hit most of the east coast. We did get a bit of snow and the winds were crazy but for the most part we got off way easy this time around. But who would have thought that today it would be sunny and in the low 50′s. Crazy weather indeed.

Sensationalism

One thing that I’ve noticed in the media is the tendency to resort to sensationalism. Extreme headlines are created to catch the attention of the reader, or teasers are previewed on television to tantalize the viewers to stay in front of the television to watch the story. More often than not, the actual story is very anticlimatic. For example, the local newspaper has a headline that reads a local man suffers burns from a fire at a gas pump.

That leads the reader to think that the gas pump had something to do with the fire, but when you read the story the truth is that the man was sitting in his truck several hours after the place had closed for the night. The surveillance videotape shows light flickering inside the truck and then the man getting out of his truck with his clothes on fire. I think that the headline should have read that a man accidentally set himself on fire from smoking some kind of drug while parking in the parking lot of a closed convenience store (that just happened to have gas pumps in the parking lot.) I mean that’s pretty obvious what really happened here!