I don't remember this coverage for the anniversary of the Turkish earthquakes, in which 10,000 people died.
Well for one thing, it didn't happen live on TV which, as any fule know, is the only proof that anything happens at all nowadays. (And not even then - cf. the Gulf War missile attacks). All we get are a few shots of the aftermath of a disaster on the news - a few foreign people looking a bit miserable - rather than wall-to-wall coverage from a well-known location, with people dying who are actually wearing suits, and therefore represent the civilised world.
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Date: 2002-09-11 06:26 am (UTC)Well for one thing, it didn't happen live on TV which, as any fule know, is the only proof that anything happens at all nowadays. (And not even then - cf. the Gulf War missile attacks). All we get are a few shots of the aftermath of a disaster on the news - a few foreign people looking a bit miserable - rather than wall-to-wall coverage from a well-known location, with people dying who are actually wearing suits, and therefore represent the civilised world.