We can all agree that the Air France plane that disappeared a few weeks ago reminded us of Lost. Which is fine. A terrible human tragedy, yes, and maybe it's a touch flippant to draw those lines between the two, but we'll be damned if that shit didn't ring of Oceanic flight 815. Maybe they HAD TO GO BACK!!!
Of course, we only make jokes like these in private or on our public blogs. Unfortunately, if you're reporting on the Air France crash for a certain Bolivian television news station, that isn't where the buck stops.
Yeah, those were screen caps from Lost, a television show. That was Kate in the foreground, clearly. All that just happened. Apparently, some Bolivian journalists were too busy to catch parts of this amazing episode when it aired.
But really, this goes beyond any knowledge you may or may not have about the show. As news hunters and gatherers, shouldn't the Bolivian news station be a little more scrupulous when it comes to information they say they received "from the Internet?" Is that all it takes? A seal of approval from "the Internet?"
According to the news director, the photos were taken by a passenger "the instant before the collision and after the aircraft crashed." ??? Does that sentence make any sense? Does any of this make any sense?
Incredible, Bolivia. Just be glad you've a healthy store of goodwill thanks to Bolivian folk singer Zulma Yugar.
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It's funny you should mention this, considering that Bolivia also has an Ebert & Roper type show on which they review American cinema circa the 1970's.
Such films as:
The Towering Inferno
The Poseidon Adventure
and
Planet of the Apes
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