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Originally posted by RawAlex@Mar 27 2003, 05:48 PM
A moon rock is more important than 72 lives? Apparently!
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The question is to compare though. You've only pointed to what CNN does but not to what media elsewhere does by comparison. You're attempting to prove your proposition by only looking at confirming evidence and ignoring falsifiable evidence.
What is the comparison? Let's look at the BBC.
The BBC, by the same logic you just used considers a story on a man that cheated on a game show to be more important than 72 lives.
This is on the front page:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2891957.stm
The Burundi story is not.
Would you categorize the BBC in the same way you've categorized CNN? Using the same exact evidence one would have to draw the same conclusion about the BBC as CNN. Fair? If not, maybe you would prefer to compare media by differing and varying standards in order to force the wished-for result?