http://politicsandpress.com/2009/democracy-is-coming-to-the-u-s-a/ The interaction of the press and politics; public diplomacy, and daily absurdities. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:44:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://politicsandpress.com/2009/democracy-is-coming-to-the-u-s-a/comment-page-1/#comment-14374 Mackenzie Brothers Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:00:05 +0000 http://politicsandpress.com/?p=378#comment-14374 At the same time that the phony balloon boy story dominated US airwaves, a real life potential disaster was playing out in the ice-covered Arctic Ocean north of Hudson's Bay. A 17 year old Inuit kid, out hunting with his father, got swept away on a breakaway ice floe. He had to spend the night on the floe as it drifted north, was forced to shoot a polar bear in the dark, and had almost frozen to death when a Canadian forces plane swooped out of the sky, dropped two parachuters with supplies who spent the next night with him and picked them up the next morning. There are no films of this and it wasn't covered by CNN and the other US networks transfixed by the balloon boy. At the same time that the phony balloon boy story dominated US airwaves, a real life potential disaster was playing out in the ice-covered Arctic Ocean north of Hudson’s Bay. A 17 year old Inuit kid, out hunting with his father, got swept away on a breakaway ice floe. He had to spend the night on the floe as it drifted north, was forced to shoot a polar bear in the dark, and had almost frozen to death when a Canadian forces plane swooped out of the sky, dropped two parachuters with supplies who spent the next night with him and picked them up the next morning. There are no films of this and it wasn’t covered by CNN and the other US networks transfixed by the balloon boy.

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