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02-13-2009, 11:38 PM #1
wow
wow if your watching 20/20 right now about eastern ky everything they said isnt halfway true.... the whole half of the state isnt hit with poverty not even 30% they just show the worst parts of it i live within 45 mins of were they just showed.... if they woulda looked across the road theres a 300,000 2 story brand new house there.... it makes me so mad how they make me and people were i live sound so stupid....
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02-14-2009, 12:22 AM #2
Yeah I watched a little bit of it and I agree. I'm in the NC part of Appalachia and it's the same way. Yes there are plenty of people in bad situations (a lot of them self-inflicted by the way), but it's nowhere near as bad as it's often portrayed and believed to be. It's actually a great, beautiful place to live and I wouldn't trade it for anywhere...except maybe Wyoming/Montana.
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02-14-2009, 12:43 AM #3
I was watching some of that and thought it was kind of interesting, but I realize that's not representative of most of the area.
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02-14-2009, 12:50 AM #4
Why would they make things seem worse than they are? I don't get it.. does it make people more interested in the story? You can't believe anything on tv..
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02-14-2009, 01:35 AM #5
Sensationalism. The media has a knack for exagerating everything, good and bad. It's all about the ratings, who cares how accurate it is.
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02-14-2009, 09:31 AM #6
yeah i really am not a fan of 20/20....they did a piece a bit ago on this cop that was "having his way" with woman and didnt get caught for the longest while and they said one day they found a slip up and never told the viewers what the slip up was....stupid.....
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02-14-2009, 10:02 AM #7
I live around the eastern tip in the coalfields and i work and am doing fine.... 20/20 forgot to mention that we have a guiness world record for most milionares living in the same community...... I think we also have the most millionares in the same county also, Pike County.............80% got rich during the coal boom here......
On the other hand there are some people who dont have enough and a lot of it is there fault because they wont work etc...
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02-14-2009, 10:37 AM #8
Wow, I didn't realize that. That is an awful convenient fact to leave out.
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02-14-2009, 12:37 PM #9
That's just generalizing - it'd be like if someone said that you live in France, so you are French, or just because I live in Minnesota means that I like lutefisk. I don't like when people assume, or whatever you want to call this.
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02-14-2009, 02:14 PM #10
ya..
ya i live in letcher county and the only poor people are the ones on drugs. they all complain they cant get a job but its there fault cause they cant pass a drug test. every1 besides them are doing fine... you can just get through high school and not go to college and get your GED and still have a good job in the mines.... they only tell the bad stuff and show the worst parts on tv its horrible...
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