Steve Wertz wrote:

>On Thu, 4 May 2006 14:26:47 +1000, Geoff Muldoon wrote:
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>>Typical clueless wannabe-know-it-all. Bet you're a Yank.
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>Apparently you're not following the thread. I'm a Texan. At
>least for the last few years I am.
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>>The cute "human interest" report is about an event in New Zealand.
>>Witchety grub eating is an Australian Aboriginal custom.
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>Same place as far as us dumb Texans are concerned.
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>>Different counties. Buy yourself an atlas.
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>I wasn't commenting on where the event happened, I was
>criticizing the stories fit for print in the Australia media.
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>Heh. A rescued goldfish in New Zealand making the headlines in
>Australia is an even more pathetic example of Australia's
>priorities. Thank you for stressing that point though, you
>dumbass Aussie.
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Oh for crying out loud! Don't your newspapers (assuming you have them
where you live) have what is often referred to as an "odd spot"? They'll
run a little piece of the "man bites dog" sort that they've picked up
from AFP or somewhere reporting news from all over the world. It was one
of those, you great Texan lummox.

That goldfish story wasn't a headline - if you'd bothered to go to
news.com's home page you would have seen that the headline was the
trapped miners (a gripping drama which probably hasn't reached Texas).
How the story ever got reported in NZ in the first place is a mystery,
and certainly leads to speculation about what is newsworthy in NZ.

Christine