Subj : Re: Submarine Deaths
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Blue White
Date : Sun Jun 25 2023 08:13 am

-=> poindexter FORTRAN wrote to disconnex <=-

 di> I always question when the media sensationalizes one story over the
 di> others. At the end of the day these were just 5 people who met an
 di> untimely fate.

 pF>  We had a caucasian news anchor on a local channel with a mixed-race
 pF>  adopted daughter who called out the media frenzy over missing white
 pF>  girls, while non-white missing kid stories may make it to the chyron
 pF>  and be forgotten. He didn't last long.

Not that it matters, but weren't a couple of the passengers of British Arab
descent?

Our local media seems to follow missing persons news regardless of the
color of the person.  However, I cannot say which they drop faster if
something larger (something a current/former President did, a sub being
lost, etc.) pushes it out of the news cycle.


.... Tell me, is something eluding you, Sunshine?
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