If there was no news,events wouldn't affect you.

[styley]

For example, if all of Africa was to be blown up and every African killed tomorrow, but it was never reported, you'd probably never no and it wouldn't have any impact on most people. Or am I wrong?

[banned-dot]

taking the crazy concept further, we would notice when non of the african countires failed to turn up for the Olympics.

[Dassie]

You're quite right
As the saying says "What you don't know cannot hurt you"

[banned-dot]

that sounded wrong!!! I meant when they failed to turn up lol

[bobtheturkey]

be no more chocolate

[Clanad]

You could rather easily find out all the raw materials that originate in Africa, many that aren't available elsewhere.... without them your life would change dramatically in a very short time and some one would be apt to tell you why... making the pain and change delayed only a short while...

[bobtheturkey]

like i said no choccy :)

[meglet]

It's a bit naive so think events won't affect you. Think of the butterfly effect!

[kwicky]

It seems strange that the birthplace of human existance ie Africa is discarded by the maker, God.
Also the land of Jesus, has experienced greater turmoil and upheaval since AD 0
What is hidden in the message?

[jno]

I don't suppose anything on quite that grand a scale would go unreported. But smaller things might - long-running wars, for instance, soon drop out of the media. I think there's one going on in Somalia, for instance, but how often do you see it on the news?

On the other hand, they do report things which affect us directly. So as Clanad says, if much of the world's diamond supply dried up, it would eventually get into the papers.

[Gromit]

There will alway be news, but not necessarily earth shattering events...

The news media compensates for lack of news by over-reporting and exaggerating what little news there is. If there was a demise of Africa and somehow it failed to be reported by Reuters, then we would probably be over-educated in the biology of Beckhams dodgy knee or Madonna adoption activities instead.

[jno]

yes, as Gromit suggests, newspapers are pretty much the same size every day (dictated by the number of advertisements) and TV bulletins the same length. So that amount of time/space has to be filled regardless of whether anything's actually happened or not. August in particular is known as the silly season because nothing much happens and so you get nonsense stories about great white sharks in the West Country illustrated with photos... from South Africa. At the moment, if Africa was annihilated it would almost certainly make the papers. At another time of year, maybe not.

[MrBen5]

But where would i get my bananas from?

[Haggisdj]

Aaaah - but where would Madonna adopt from now???

[taichiperson]

Don't bananas come from the Caribbean?

[PaulSabin]

It would depend who blew it up. Natural disaster or other country.

I have no firends or family there or anything, so it would not affect me personally. In fact I may even go there if the land is still in tact but no people. Think of the space. Wow.

[jno]

depends, PaulSabin, what do you want - Sahara or rainforest?

[Twenty20]

I think we'd all notice actually.

All those junk emails written in CAPS would suddenly disappear!

[MrBen5]

Ahhh, i meant bandanas then taichiperson...

[johnlambert]

We would notice if Africa blew up. The noise would deafen us, the shockwave would knock us over thus affecting and having an impact on us.

[China Doll]

Global warming might not be reported but we would stll feel the effect.