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troop412
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05 Apr 2010, 8:11 pm

I apologize, but this needs to be asked...Is a basketball game more important than an explosion in a WV mine?



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05 Apr 2010, 8:19 pm

A basketball game is much more important, from my standpoint.


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05 Apr 2010, 9:00 pm

If this is about the relative coverage that both incidents received (btw CockneyRebel, he's referring to the one that killed 12 miners, not just a random explosion), it's simple: people don't like to dwell on things that make them sad.


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05 Apr 2010, 10:25 pm

I've seen newspapers in which some celebrity breaking up with her boyfriend is given the first page while the deaths of 10 people are hidden in a tiny box on page 20.



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06 Apr 2010, 12:28 am

Avarice wrote:
I've seen newspapers in which some celebrity breaking up with her boyfriend is given the first page while the deaths of 10 people are hidden in a tiny box on page 20.


People can be stupid, ignorant busybodies. |:-| And newspapers adjust accordingly to make the most sales.



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06 Apr 2010, 12:29 am

All it takes is a sizeable constituency. News of the places that interest me barely make it into the paper - I am a minority. But I knew some people who had nes of the home team mailed to them on the other side of the planet.



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06 Apr 2010, 12:55 am

troop412 wrote:
I apologize, but this needs to be asked...Is a basketball game more important than an explosion in a WV mine?

Absolutely. People are killed in strange ways every day.

But the national championship game happens only once a year.


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