[dangus]

She is a beautiful woman, but is that why the story is newsworthy? Is it less tragic if a modestly attractive woman, or an simply unattractive woman gets this disease?

[trumandogz]

She is a beautiful woman, but is that why the story is newsworthy? Is it less tragic if a modestly attractive woman, or an simply unattractive woman gets this disease?

Now, Now, take a deep breath and call Greta Van Susteren and she can tell you that it is only tragic and newsworthy when something bad happens to an beautiful, often blonde, white woman.

[Montanabound]

That’s one of my pet peeves. When someone is injured or disfigured, the media always implies, or outright says, that it is so much worse because the victim is beautiful or cute.

[sphinx]

Is it less tragic if a modestly attractive woman, or an simply unattractive woman gets this disease?

Not less tragic. Only less "newsworthy."