Glee gets targeted by angry parents

Since last week, The Parents Television Council has overtly made known their discontent for the pictures featured on the November 2010 issue of GQ Magazine. The pictures of actresses Lea Michele and Diana Argon are "near-pornographic" and are on the "border of pedophilia," the council says. On the other hand, GQ Editor in Chief Jim Nelson has not said much about the accusations; he has opted not to express a lot of comments on the matter on behalf of the magazine. Nevertheless, on his own opinion he stated that it is disappointing that parents these days don't know how to "divide reality from fantasy."

Whatever opinion PTC gives about the photo shoot or any other content on the magazine will fade in the air. First of all, GQ does not target families as its main demographic. Secondly, PTC has a reputation of over exaggerating.

Celebrities, and other public figures aware of the scandal have qualified PTC's accusations as "stupid" and "pointless." Billy Ray Cyrus, whose daughter has been criticized by the PTC in the past said that PTC "has recently been spending all its time attacking people rather than promoting family television."

Although a lot of parents considered Glee to be family show, many do not consider it to be such. So there is not a common ground to express that by allowing the actresses model "the creators of the program have established their intentions on the show's directions. And it isn't good for families." FOX and GQ are two independent entities; they do not work together. There's not good reasoning behind to suggest that with the nature of these pictures, the show will now become more sexy.

GQ have managed well not to directly address the comments made by PTC. Their comments can't hurt the publication.

A blade in my meat?

On September 30th, a former Tyson Foods employee found a blade near his working area, cut it into four pieces and threw it into the meat. A witness immidiately reported what happened. Authorities were called and the incident started to be investigated. 20-year-old Nwee Lah was arrested and taken under the custody of Amarillo, TX authorities.

All the meat touched by Lah was retrieved as soon as possible. The pieces of meat with the blades were found. They never left the perimeters of the packaging company.

Since the incident ocurred all information was kept confidential. Nothing was shared with the media. At the time, there was no need to let customers know because there was no risk involved to them. It was not until Lah was found guilty when the story was released.

At first glace it wasn't clear why Tyson would release this story. By doing so the company is admitting that their installations are not safe. Then why are they opening about it? I think is so that they won't have any skeletons in the closet. It would be more detrimental to have the story released in the future with a similar or worse circumstance.

Tyson has taken this as an opportunity to reinforce a message to their customers telling them that are the most important for the company. Spokesman Gary Mickelson said, " The safety of our beef products is vital to the continued sucess of our business, so we take matteres as this very seriously. We contacted local law enforcement about this incident after conducting our own investigation." With this statement the company sets an image of trust.

Indonesia train crash

Everyone agrees that last week's train crash in Indonesia is a wake up call for the country's poor law enforcement on safety regulations. Too bad this tragedy had to become one of the podromes that hopefully will lead to a better system.

Yesterday PT kereta Api, the state-run railway company, gave a press conference to finally adress the issue with the press. Let's keep in mind that their response call was delayed for about 4 days! Not 1. Not 2. Not 3. 4! The spokesperson, Director General of railway at the Ministryof Transportation, apologized for what happened, shared his condolences and promised to improve the railway service in Indonesia. Inmmidiately after his remarks, without anyone asking he said that the company could pay families a significant amount in compensation for the lost lives of their loved ones. Really? What does this show? You guessed it. Money will be dearly missed.

In the mean time, the engineer driving the train has been arrested. Investigators are still trying to determine whether it was human error or a mechanical problem what caused the accident. If found guilty, the engineer could face up to 6 1/2 years in jail.

Train crashes in Indonesia, 35 people perish

Tragedy striked Indonesia as two passenger trains collapsed into each other early Saturday morning. 35 passengers perished, while other 15 are fighting for their lives. Information about the victims has been gathered from all the different hospitals were the victims were taken. Some corpses were difficult to identify due to the injuries they received.

Hours after the accident happened, the president of the country conveyed his condolence to the families of the victims. Two days after the incident, no statements from the CEOs have been made. They nor any other representative has made an appearence to address the issue.

The reason of the accident is still under investigation. So far, allegations indicate human error from the machinist.

When trying to access information about the incident from the websites of Argo Anggrek Railway and Senja Utama Trains, their pages constantly marked error. 24 hours after the accident the sites still showed the same message. News websites are the ones that have facilitated the easy flow of information between both organizations and the public. . No one has assumed responsability. The only information circulating is that that may help families reunite with their loved ones or claim bodies. A list with the names of the hospitals was made available via ALL VOICES, news website.

The names of two drivers, allegedly involved in the crash, were released. Apparently they stand alone, their employers have not showed their support. They were arrested by police for further questioning.

Information has been limited to gather because majority of them is, or appears to be, Indonesian. I would assume that because of the magnitude of the proplem and the global attention that the news are receiving there would be some more information available in English.