Oscar Pistorius, the African amputee runner who has won a historic medal at the world championships in the 4x400m relay was having an interview with the BBC radio programme Today. He was the only person who was using a sprinter for the race and he was competing with other official runners who has healthy legs. But as Pistorius was asked about he might be considered an "inconvenient embarrassment to South African authorities and the IAAF because, effectively, you're taking them into uncharted ethical waters". He then said, "I think that's an insult to me and I think this interview is over." If someone has to bring up something so sensitive like this, I reckon the host has to at least inform their interviewee that he/she would ask a question like that. Without a common knowledge or consensus prior to the show is on-air, it is very easy to trigger statements so controversial that the interviewee like Oscar wouldn't like to hear.
Mother allegedly murder daughter, then killed herself by plunging into Story Bridge [Courier Mail]
This morning in Brisbane, a teenager girl was murdered at her Paddington residence with stab or slash wounds. Shortly after, her mother jumped off Story Bridge and killed herself. Police are investigating and the crime scene has established at their Paddington property. Early investigation has shown that both incidents may be linked but in the mean time, we don't know why the daughter was killed and the mother committed suicide. I wonder if it is the mother who killed her own daughter but according to the article it seemed quite likely.
What blasphemy. First, there comes a very annoying TV ad with people kept singing "Down, down" through the whole advertisement. That's fine, I can take it, I could just ignore it while it's on air. But here what we're going to see is completely ridiculous. A bunch of little kids at a school in Sydney were led to the school hall and were being schooled on the benefits of the promotion. Then, schools held up Coles banners and parents are counting how many Coles vouchers their kids have collect. I mean, is this school anymore? Are we trying to tell the whole purpose of shopping is to grab all the vouchers and redeem goods and groceries from them? What are they teaching kids nowadays? Rita Princi, a child and adolescent psychologist from Adelaide summed it up quite well, "What they are doing is almost a form of manipulation and is a brainwashing exercise." So true. I can't believe the major supermarket is doing something so unethical to this extend. It's just ridiculous!
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