At 02:13 PM 31/08/97 +0100, you wrote:
>And no, I didn't know about Algeria nd I think that is extremely upsetting
>and tragic - would you say 'OOH, I LIKE A GOOD MASS SLAUGHTER'???
No I don't expect he would.
What I think he was trying to point out is that although the death of
Princess Diana, her boyfriend and her driver is understandably very tragic,
the world media is acting like such a three-ringed circus over it that one
would think it was the most shockingly terrible event of the year. It's
cynical, highly dubious and exactly the sort of sordid media attention that
it now looks like may have caused her car to crash.
And yet only two days ago 100 people were burned alive, beaten senseless
and hacked to death and the media didn't even give it a second glance.
That's about 25 times the human tragedy of this car crash in Paris. But
no one in that town in Algeria was a celebrity. None of them had opened
hospitals, had dinner with the President of the USA or had their marraige
televised to millions of viewers worldwide.
So as far as the media was concerned, it wasn't worth worrying about
because who on Earth is interested in a bunch of nobodies anyway?
Now *that's* sick.
Cheers!
Grant.
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