Excellent point - thanks.
The vast majority of those Malaria deaths can be prevented by applying DDT. But since the media decided decades ago that DDT was BAD, it can't be used to stop the suffering.
An interesting, but little reported story on the WTC - there is a chance that the WTC could have survived the effects of the fires, had they used asbestos insulation over their steel framing - but the media decided that asbestos was BAD, and drove our government to outlaw it also, just as the bottom floors of the WTC were being built.
My only point - the media has so much blood on its hands that it offends me when they report a story like this - to this extent.
I agree with your assessments in that post. Your earlier post was deleted before I could read it. What I have gleaned from what others have quoted from it leads me to the following:
Although I agree with the thought process that led to your statement - myself being do distrustful of the media that I dumped tv almost eight years ago - I think you may be fighting the wrong battle here.
A natural disaster which kills this many people in this many diverse places is a news story - one of the biggest of the century. The pictures in this case merely drive the point home.
Now, the Scott peterson case...that's a different story.