Priorities, values and dead people

Why is it--and how did it come to be--that our media are obsessed with the affronts to the dignity of one executed dictator whilst generally ignoring the affronts to the dignity of thousands of murdered people in Darfur (and elsewhere)?

Perhaps, as Stalin supposedly said, "One dead person is a a tragedy [hah!], a million dead is a statistic."

On the other hand, a UK Tory's cri de coeur:

There was a great scuffling, and joyous shouts, and at last you had what they call the money shot: a man in death, his bloody neck at right angles....

Some (bloody) tyrant, some (not bloody as far as one has seen) neck.

Mark C.

Posted by markc at January 3, 2007 09:43 PM