Rowan Atkinson wrote a sketch on "not the nine o'clock news" where the nationalities of those who died where read out in order of importance
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This days a lot about journalists and even more about their readership.
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Or even: this SAYS a lot about journalists and their readesrship. I must get some smaller fingers!
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Yes and "cost" of 2003 invasion of
#Iraq now upto 5000 US service personnel. Oh and 0.5 - 1 million Iraqis, so at least 100 = 1Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Go spend five or ten years in a country where all but the corrupt elite are vulnerable to natural disasters, human traffickers, lack of meds
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People are unsurprisingly more interested in people like them, or in situations they can imagine themselves in.
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Media in general sell viewership/readership. Viewers want fast, unusual, dramatic, sensational news, not slow, repetitive reminders of loss.
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Case for saying that news should always be parochial and restricted to family and friends
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Perspective shifting! Implications for the Pacific and climate change attention too
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There was a fabulous chart like that after Princess Diana died. Really makes you analyse the media and your own bias
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Famine deaths are political disasters.
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I would like to see a shark attack chart! Pretty sure that's a one incident to one report world wide. The news loves them!
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Shocking! /s
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