A suicide blast in Iraq that killed mostly children was in today's "oh, and by the way" section of CNN.com; the headline was the 2 minutes of silence ciphergoth mentioned above.*
Attacks against civilians in both Israel and Iraq are sadly the norm**, and I understand that the normal is not news. And what happens close is going to have a lot more of an impact than what happens elsewhere, just as much as what's defined as 'close' gets redefined as the pain gets to be too much***, which again is completely expected and understandable.
Just . . . sometimes I wish that the press, at least, would remember.
(That, and that the US press would stop abdicating their responsibility to inform rather than entertain or whip emotion, but that's another post entirely.)
*I will say, though, that I'm happy that Karl Rove's name is sticking in the main headlines; the news connecting him and the Valerie Plame outing came out on Thursday and was understandably eclipsed.
** I called my aunt a few years ago when I heard about the 12/2002 Ben YehudaStreet attacks killing, I believe, 25 people at a popular Saturday night outdoor gathering. Despite my calling the very next day she had no idea why I was calling -- the youngest son was away, the middle son hadn't gone down there as he ordinarily would but had hung out in the suburbs that night, and the eldest son had been in Tel Aviv, and wonder of wonders he'd returned to find his motorbike had been unscathed by the bomb that damaged all the cars around it.
*** WW2 anecdote which the above reminded me of: [journalist]- "so you've just come back from the front lines?" [soldier] "oh, no, no. I was 50 yards back from the front lines."
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I suppose I should mention that I'm in the USA, not Britain, and that I just returned from my Israeli cousin's wedding. There was a suicide attack in Netanya on Tuesday but google news doesn't seem to show any mention of it on non-Israeli sites.
A suicide blast in Iraq that killed mostly children was in today's "oh, and by the way" section of CNN.com; the headline was the 2 minutes of silence
Attacks against civilians in both Israel and Iraq are sadly the norm**, and I understand that the normal is not news. And what happens close is going to have a lot more of an impact than what happens elsewhere, just as much as what's defined as 'close' gets redefined as the pain gets to be too much***, which again is completely expected and understandable.
Just . . . sometimes I wish that the press, at least, would remember.
(That, and that the US press would stop abdicating their responsibility to inform rather than entertain or whip emotion, but that's another post entirely.)
*I will say, though, that I'm happy that Karl Rove's name is sticking in the main headlines; the news connecting him and the Valerie Plame outing came out on Thursday and was understandably eclipsed.
** I called my aunt a few years ago when I heard about the 12/2002 Ben Yehuda Street attacks killing, I believe, 25 people at a popular Saturday night outdoor gathering. Despite my calling the very next day she had no idea why I was calling -- the youngest son was away, the middle son hadn't gone down there as he ordinarily would but had hung out in the suburbs that night, and the eldest son had been in Tel Aviv, and wonder of wonders he'd returned to find his motorbike had been unscathed by the bomb that damaged all the cars around it.
*** WW2 anecdote which the above reminded me of: [journalist]- "so you've just come back from the front lines?" [soldier] "oh, no, no. I was 50 yards back from the front lines."