The courage of her convictions

[akicif]

Earlier today an American college student died for what she believed in. Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer as she tried to protect a doctor's home in a Palestinian refugee camp.

[The link provided is to Google's reports on the coverage rather than to any particular newspaper]

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[muninnhuginn]

I'm assuming there were invisible quotes round things like "American lives... worth more" and "foreigners". Ouch, cynical and pedantic today, I'm afraid. And unable to admire waste.

[rathgild.livejournal.com]

It would depend on the country. Watching TV news in the UK up to about 5 years ago was interesting. A motorway pile up in which, say, 5 British people were killed would be a higher story than something like the Rwandan massacres. It seemed that if the order of importance was British deaths, British injuries or other white deaths, other white injuries, blacks and asians if there is time. Sometimes, the kitten left a fortune by dotty old lady got more airtime than thousands dying of flood or famine in India or Africa. Sad but true. Possibly it's a hang over from the colonial past, though it still doesn't make it right