Monday, January 03, 2005
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Tsunami death toll nears 140,000
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Tsunami death toll nears 140,000
and i find it somewhat disturbing - at some personal level - that the press is keeping track of the death count as its headline. the bbc and cnn have both been doing this for a week now. i don't know, watching the death toll rise at such a fast rate like it's on some disembodied news ticker in times quare has been really hard for me. the bbc kept a link to an old story up for a while; the story was about the greatest disasters, in terms of human life lost, in recorded history. i know it's illogical, and this is probably a sentiment welling from someplace deep in the psychological recesses of my heart, but that really leaves me feeling unsettled. ¶ 2:47 AM
and i find it somewhat disturbing - at some personal level - that the press is keeping track of the death count as its headline. the bbc and cnn have both been doing this for a week now. i don't know, watching the death toll rise at such a fast rate like it's on some disembodied news ticker in times quare has been really hard for me. the bbc kept a link to an old story up for a while; the story was about the greatest disasters, in terms of human life lost, in recorded history. i know it's illogical, and this is probably a sentiment welling from someplace deep in the psychological recesses of my heart, but that really leaves me feeling unsettled. ¶ 2:47 AM