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"Take away the pictures and this is virtually a non-story."

Why does this kind of reasoning always pop up? This is not a political massacre..like the ones you cite. This is a natural disaster of fairly astounding proportions.

To you- it may be a non-story.

"To you- it may be a non-story."

To me it's a minor story with great pics - that mostly can be prevented the next time for a relatively cheap investment of a civil defense and alerting system.

Someone else on this thread mentioned an asteroid hit to be a major threat. That one I do take seriously, as it can wipe out all human life on this planet - and it has happened in the past (depending on its size).

In fact it was in the news the past few days. But the media treats it like an Art Bell story - a bunch of kooks that are bored.

If the media were to put this in perspective, they would be demanding two things, rather than laughing at their audience or actively opposing them.

1) Some type of asteroid diversion system (don't ask how).

2) Some way to prevent nuclear missiles from hitting the US (i.e., Star Wars)

As horrible as this tragedy was for the people involved, it would be real nice if the media would spend even 2% of this time on the need for the above 2 items. They concern me a lot more than tidal waves in Indian Ocean.

For everyone:

The real story about this tragedy is on this thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1310131/posts

Again - it comes back to Malaria. Many, many, more people than necessary will die because the media, in essence, outlawed DDT.

But we'll never know that, because the media can do no wrong.