this is sounding strangely familiar
Jul. 20th, 2009 10:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hnpccSurprisingly I'd heard nothing about the fires in British Columbia at all on the news, but the pictures and the story all sound depressingly familiar. The postdoc e-mailed me the story - her extended family have lost two houses (aunt/uncle's house and parents of aunt/uncle's house.) Fortunately her extended family are all OK.
Of course the lack of reporting here may have been due to a combination of being pre-occupied with the bombings in Jakarta, and of course the cricket. As it turns out my brother knew one of the Australians killed in the bombings, who leaves behind a 3 year old child.
It still seems odd that nothing has made it that I've seen on the news here - perhaps it's been a conscious decision not to play footage while the Commission is still in session and risk further stress to people, I don't know. It's still strange though.
Edit: OK, it is on the ABC website. Maybe I've just managed to miss the stories on the news or something, it's certainly not impossible.
Edit 2: It's not on The Age's website, even when you search under 'Canada'. Then again they're becoming more and more crap, so maybe not that much of a surprise. Nor the Herald-Sun's website either (ditto). Hm, wonder if that's self-censorship or whether they really don't think it's newsworthy.
Edit 3: OK, it's not on CNN either. Guess my conspiracy theories are wrong and they're waiting for people to die or something. But still, pretty flame footage - surely that should have made it on TV?
Of course the lack of reporting here may have been due to a combination of being pre-occupied with the bombings in Jakarta, and of course the cricket. As it turns out my brother knew one of the Australians killed in the bombings, who leaves behind a 3 year old child.
It still seems odd that nothing has made it that I've seen on the news here - perhaps it's been a conscious decision not to play footage while the Commission is still in session and risk further stress to people, I don't know. It's still strange though.
Edit: OK, it is on the ABC website. Maybe I've just managed to miss the stories on the news or something, it's certainly not impossible.
Edit 2: It's not on The Age's website, even when you search under 'Canada'. Then again they're becoming more and more crap, so maybe not that much of a surprise. Nor the Herald-Sun's website either (ditto). Hm, wonder if that's self-censorship or whether they really don't think it's newsworthy.
Edit 3: OK, it's not on CNN either. Guess my conspiracy theories are wrong and they're waiting for people to die or something. But still, pretty flame footage - surely that should have made it on TV?
