The top story in today’s Boston Globe is headlined “three more loose bolts in tunnel”. Every day for the past two weeks, the top story in every Boston newspaper has been about some defective ceiling panels in our new Big Dig highway tunnels. Africans may be slaughtering each other wholesale (Darfur?), but we mourn for Milena Del Valle, one of our neighbors, who was killed by a falling concrete block on July 10, 2006.
During the Cold War, folks used to say that if New York City were destroyed by a Russian nuclear bomb, the headline in the Globe would read “Framingham man missing”.
The wolf only howls for a missing fellow pack member not for canid many moons away.
That’s probably in every city of every country. Fear sells newspapers and attracts TV news audiences and you don’t have to be afraid of being machettied by a Janjaweed mob.
Those loose bolts holding up those concrete block are a real threat to you, though.
(never mind the dozens of folks who were killed in the same week as Milena simply because people can’t drive, something the media refuses to make people afraid of)