Yes, Chris. Well put.
Andre de Blue
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From: "Chris Mansell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 7:47 AM
Subject: Re: The 100,000
> Thank you for that Alison.
>
> Our priorities are astounding. A 100 000 Christmas beetles would have got
> more attention and sympathy. And, possibly, appropriate action.
>
> A friend who worked on the foreign desk of a major broadsheet worked out
the
> equivalences for appearing on the front page of her paper: something like
1
> Australian = 2 Americans = 5 Brits = ......5 000 Bangladeshis ....= 6 000
> Africans =... Ie if only one Australian died in an international incident
> it was on the front page, but 6000 Africans would have to work hard to
make
> it and might end up as a small item on page 24. I'm thinking that there
> would be subdivisions among those categories: eg 1 rich Australian
sportsman
> = 15 non-rich Australian sportswoman = any number of Aboriginal children
> etc. Though sometimes there are glitches. When Dransfield died I remember
> one afternoon paper had on their posters POET DIES. I can't have dreamt
> this.
> chris
>
> On 31/1/05 1:45 PM, "Alison Croggon" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > From Empire Notes
> >
> > http://www.empirenotes.org/#30jan051
> >
> > The 100,000...
>
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