Saturday, January 05, 2008
The Media - Some deaths reported; others are not
Here's another interesting comparison of how the media makes headlines of some things, while hardly reporting at all on other things; even when they are statistically worse...
Investors Business Daily asks:
"Quick, which nation shows average civilian deaths at 33 a day in the last third of 2007? Now name the one where civilian deaths average 19 a day? If you guessed Iraq and Venezuela, you'd have it backward."