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- paraselene0
sorry to bump this and sorry to drag it onto topic, but there's just one small point i'd like to make.
the article in question is from an english-language website in an english-speaking country. i imagine that this tragedy in baghdad has accrued much more arabic press than anglophone press.
whether or not it is more tragic / equally as tragic / less tragic than loss of life elsewhere in the world is a ridiculous point to argue.
i'm willing to be wrong about the following, but i would imagine that if your main news source is an anglophone website, then the chances are much greater that your great aunt who has an existential crisis everytime the teapot whistles, much less when the worst storm in living memory hits the only home she's ever known, or the first boy you ever kissed or the girlfriend from uni with whom you hitchhiked through guatemala live in new orleans. so perhaps you're more interested in that particular world tragedy of all the tragedies taking place around the planet at any given time (take your pick).
and perhaps you've not heard from these people for a number of days and you're worried and so you like to check the news more regularly than you normally would do because any little new bit of information might be of help/solace to you.
maybe the fact that you're reading your news from an anglophone website doesn't up the chances of that at all, but i reckon it ups the chances of that being the case for one of your lovers / coworkers / internet friends.
so maybe audience has something to do with it. just a smidge.
it's more about supply and demand than the magnitude of the devastation.