Originally Posted by RadiationBoy
Its amazing to me how the news covers this so well whith so many pictures of how horrible this is, why can't they do this with the war we're in right now, more people are dieing from that why aren't we talking about how horrible that is?
If 11 thousand innocent people died today in Iraq, I'm sure the incident would get it's day or two of fame on CNN. However, the war is an ongoing event, which has been debated 24/7 on many channels, most people consider the subject pretty tired, and it can no longer be considered news.
Today our planet has experienced something which is likely to be the worst natural disaster in 40 years. In one instant, 5 times more people died than in the 2001 terrorist attacks. American fatalities in the Iraq war don't reach 1/10th of the number of deaths caused by todays tsunami. The scale of this in terms of lives lost doesn't even come close to the number of lives lost in Iraq over the last 12 months. I think it deserves slightly more news coverage, don't you?
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