just because they're far away.........

I was quite sickened the other day when I listening to the news on the radio, about the language use, and, the prioritise given to different issues on-going at present.
Now I know I shouldn’t expect much better, but despite that, it does not repel my frustration.

In a description of the current “terrorist plot” to blow-up up to 3 planes, or something, it described the event as “a plan by terrorists to cause untold death and destruction and commit mass murder. This was intended to be mass murder on an unimaginable scale.” And John Reid, the Home Secretary, said that “loss of life would have been on an unprecedented scale”.

Ok, well in our context maybe, yet we seem to be forgetting to be Blitz, and of course, the yet to be dangers of global warming. But what really outraged me, of which I must learn to accept I guess, was that just a few minutes after the excitement of the news report about the plot came another bulletin lasting a couple of seconds about sixty or seventy Iraqis blown up in a suicide bomb. Since these suicide bombs are continuous, they have little impact and have the deaths just become another part of our mundane news coverage.