> From: Dave Uebele <daveu_at_sptddog.com> > Shawn W. Baker wrote: > > > Oh boy, you know, the exact same thoughts crossed my mind yesterday. > > While the young lady who drowned was no less a citizen of the United > > States than John Kennedy, her body retrieval became a debatable issue > > while the retrieval of Jr. was totally a non-issue. Of course fewer > > environmental issues were directly involved with the plane crash, but > > there was still a lot of diesel and helicopter fuel expended in the > > search and later retrieval. > > As someone that lives near a small airport, the local paper regularly > has news of small plane crashes, about the only time it gets any wider > coverage is if someone is killed, and then only to editorialize > about how unsafe the airport or small planes are. So I completely > agree with the concerns about how much attention and effort was placed on > this plane crash and recovery, purely based on the last name of the victim. I don't see any more effort towards recovery based on the victim's name. Not usually. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I've heard of extensive and expensive recovery efforts to save people whose names are completely unknown to the rescuers. That's what they do and sometimes lose their lives doing it. I think to suggest that rescuers put forth less effort on the unfamous, is to not give them due credit. I do, however, see more coverage on the news when a celebrity is involved. <snip> > over princess Diana and her auto accident. Yes its a tragedy, > so is the thousands of fatal automobile accidents that happen > in this and other countries, but you don't see the world stop to cover > them for a week on the nightly news. And that's what the news media does... cover stuff that sells newspapers and people pay money to read. I don't stop my daily life to watch it unless there are some interesting recovery methods going on as you mentioned. Otherwise, I use the remote. It's pretty simple, really. Jackie *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Jul 23 1999 - 15:54:03 PDT
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