John D. Giorgis wrote:
It's worse here. The day before Columbia went down, a commuter train in Sydney derailed, killing 8 and seriously injuring hundreds. These were people who left their families goodbye in the morning to go to another day at work, planning their evening home like the rest of us. These were not highly paid and accoladed professionals trained to do a dangerous job, or people who chose (and strove for) a high-risk job.Speaking of lousy reporting, I have to speak up and say that there is *way* too much emphasis on the human deaths in this tragedy. Ok, it was nice to at elast mention the people involved when it happened, but with everything that is going on in the world right now, News Shows two days later should not still be running profiles of the astronauts.
And yet, the minute Columbia lost radio contact, those 8 Australian commuters were banished from Australian news programs, and we have had 2 days of special reports, newspaper liftouts and in depth biographies of the 7 astronauts from the other side of the world.
This is not new of course - a flood or earthquake killing tens of thousands in Bangladesh or China gets far less coverage than a shooting death in the USA, and yet those countries are only a few thousand kilometres away, compared to 15,000km to USA.
Cheers
Russell C.
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