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**George Kerby**

On 1/30/11 7:40 PM, in article
, "Bill Graham"
wrote:

Savageduck wrote:
On 2011-01-30 12:10:07 -0800, George Kerby
said:

On 1/30/11 1:35 PM, in article
, "peter"
wrote:

On 1/30/2011 9:22 AM, tony cooper wrote:

David is correct in one sense, but he's not very good at critical
thinking.

A 20 year-old unemployed motorcyclist was killed this weekend in a
road accident. The local television station devoted a segment to
the story and the local newspaper gave it two column-inches.

Dozens of Iraqis died this weekend from various acts of violence.
They were not named in the newspaper here and the local television
stations made only a general reference to violence in Iraq.

Would David's Martian conclude that one Orlando resident has more
worth than a few dozen Iraqis, or would the Martian understand that
newspapers and television news programs give space and time to
what is of local interest?

When a soldier from Orlando is killed in action in one of the
Mideast conflict areas, that individual's death - and the family
he/she leaves behind - is given somewhat extensive coverage in the
Orlando media outlets. The dozens of deaths in the same time
period of residents of that area rates coverage only if they all
go at once or in some noted incident.

Is this valuing an American higher than an Afghani or an Iraqi? Or is
it just the media doing what is supposed to do in reporting
to the public that the media serves?

the flip side of that is how much coverage did the motorcyclist get
in the Iraqi and Afghan press?

BINGO!

Ta! Da!

...and the Martian is still able to snack on Kansan, Texan, Iraqi, or
Tunisian, without any discernible change in favor. (Though some might
have a slight oiliness.)

But, as the cook said to the cannibal who complained about the excessive
price of "hippie" on the menue: "Did you ever try to clean one of those
things?"

That is a question unique to No-Cal Martians.