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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I know we had an argument awhile ago about how it is/(is not) insensitive when a News story on a crashed plane in some Foreign country points out the number of dead Americans- "Plane Crashes Killing 250- 4 Americans Among Dead."
Both sides had valid points as I recall. But this morning NYT had the headline "40000 Killed By Tsunami- 8 Americans Among Dead."
Somehow, given the imbalance in the number of significant figures, pointing to the number of Americans seems horribly insenstive. No?
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2. I had trouble grasping the initial 11,000 number that was released two days ago. 44,000 dead is unfathomable to me, and I imagine the number will be worse as the week goes on. Yahoo's front page (44,000 dead, 11 Americans) is doing the same thing, and their focusing on an injured Czech supermodel seems a little gauche also.
