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Old 12-28-2004, 12:33 PM   #11
Sidd Finch
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8 Americans dead

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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?
Even worse -- today's headlines (on Yahoo) report that a Czech supermodel was injured in the tsunami.
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