In Reply to: nothing to do with Bali posted by Smudge UK on Tuesday, 11. April 2006 at 14:13 Bali Time:
Hi Smudge
Unfortunately even the 'otherwise rational Australians' cant escape all of the media hype over any events that occur in Indonesia.
As soon as anything remotely Indonesian hits the news the headlines read 'Bali in trouble' 'travel warning upgrade to Bali' " etc etc
We all know that geographically Indonesia covers a really large area, but the Aussie media doesn't have the ability to report positively on the whole area.
Stupid stories of Aussies who 'have made really bad decisions' appear in the headlines often
when these events occur in other countries are not newsworthy? Go figure