> Following Raju Das's contrinbution, yes it is very interesting no-one
> else has commented on the cyclone - a similar principle seems to
> apply here to the way UK newspapers covaerage of disaters is
> proportional not only to the loss of ;life but alos to the distance
> away that the loss of life took place. That is to say, a 100 life
> disaster in the UK merits the same no of column inches as a 10,000
> life disaster in say Bangladesh; a disaster killing 500 in the UK
> gets many more inches than the same disaster in say Iran or Nigeria.
>
Agreed, Raju and Hillary.
And another omission is the Russian genocide of the Chechen people,
although all is well as Robin Cook is ethically on the case with this
now, isn't he???!
Now, back to lecture writing...
keith
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