It's not clear how the opinions of the newspaper psychics jibe with those of the ones actually hired by the government.
Here, last Thursday's Pos Kota (City Post) features a psychic front and center with Mama Lauren: Adam Air in Lake Tempe (a lake in South Sulawesi). Upper left: Adam Air thought to have been sabotaged -- Plane exploded in air. Then a little editorializing in the blue headline: Minister of Transportation knows no shame - must resign to pay for his sins (i.e. the latest series of transportation disasters). None of which quite manages to displace the story on the upper right about a celebrity marrying a member of parliament.
Even the more sober coverage is sometimes odd. Metro TV, the big news station, has been running the song Leavin' on a Jet Plane under lists of victims' names, which is a tad disconcerting.
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"Metro TV, the big news station, has been running the song Leavin' on a Jet Plane under lists of victims' names..."
WOW.
are they owned by Fox TV??
(whose working motto seems to be: the more inappropriate and tasteless, the better).
but what I really want to know more about are these government psychics. are they on staff, or just called upon during crises?
No, although we get Fox, too -- lucky us. I think the use of the song doesn't strike people here as being odd; when it came on the TVs at the Post, all the foreigners started laughing, but nobody else did.
As for the psychics, I think they are hired on a contract basis. There's definitely more of that sort of thing out in the open here; like the rumors that the government hired mystics to make it rain on the day of a big protest (and it did rain, too, right on schedule). Also I recall the Vice President sponsoring a Javanese puppet show to change the country's luck, maybe after the earthquake in May. Nancy Reagan and her astrologer would have fit right in.t
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