Posted on 07/07/2023 11:58:04 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A healthy four-year-old girl died suddenly in the Northern Territory, Australia leaving her loved ones and medical professionals searching for answers.
Millicent Edwards collapsed at home on April 14 and was rushed to hospital where she was put into an induced coma to stabilize her condition.
She was subsequently transferred to the Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Adelaide, Australia where 30 of her closest family members and friends gathered by her side. But despite tireless efforts from doctors, Millicent tragically died on June 16.
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Another died suddenly?
Why is this news? When I was in fourth grade a girl in my class died in her sleep. That occurred in the 1950’s. This isn’t news, it’s tragedy.
Uh....because the girl’s father took the vax two years ago ? It’s possible. I mean stranger things have happened.
SIDS? That is the worst and nothing can be done.
“Why is this news?”
There used to be a whole news genre called “bus plunge.” This was because the newspaper was arranged in two-inch columns. The type setting process was such that if they had a two paragraph by two-inch blank space, they had to fill it with something. They’d go to the “wire” services and find a story about a bus somewhere in the world which had plunged off a mountain road. The story was formulaic and could be made to perfectly fit the available space.
Today the physical problems of printing the news are long past. Today’s problem is clicks. There are tables that give an editor the number of clicks he’ll get by putting key words in the title. Programs count the clicks and that determines the story titles and what gets covered. This is why you never see titles like, “Wonderful thing happens to heterosexual mother of three.” But “Child dies” will get a guaranteed number of clicks.
At least for the moment, news stories need to be loosely based on things that actually happen. Children die. That’s worth X clicks and Y revenue.
No this one lingered for some months.
100% mandatory vexing in Australia.
The correct terminology is: Died suddenly, doctor baffled.
What a mystery!
Steaming piles of excrement everywhere are offended by that comparison.
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