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
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> http://www.empirenotes.org/#30jan051
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> The 100,000...
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