Talk about shallow reporting. Telstra's Bigpond.com site reports as "news" criticism of the Myanmar junta's response to the recent cyclone in that country, OK. Fair enough.
What is not fair enough is that Telstra has picked up that message, ignoring the fact that Sylvester Stallone is the person making the comments, and that he is using his statement to promote his latest movie. Even worse, I now see that it is sourced from Australia's own ABC. Shame, Aunty, shame!
Let me point out that the Americans failed miserably to deal with the aftermath of their own tropical storm disaster, (Hurricane Katrina) on their own home soil, in New Orleans.
And let us compare "like with like" - the Americans have vast resources to throw at the problem, unlike Myanmar.
I am not defending the Junta in Myanmar - far from it, but let companies like Bigpond (and the ABC) please be more "aware" when picking up trashy "celebrity" statements like that one. Who really cares what Sylvester Stallone thinks, anyway?
There is a humanitarian crisis in Myanmar. Let us deal with that.
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