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shanshee_allures
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Re: why do the tabloids get away with it?
May 30, 2007, 16:45
pooley wrote:


I know that people go missing everyday, and that dozens are being killed in Iraq everyday, but that shouldn't let you harden your heart towards individuals. Once you stop caring about the one, and talk in groups i think you are in danger of just spouting facts.





Well said. My daughter's 3 and a half now, and sometimes I find myself stupidly looking at her and thinking 'Christ, what if this was me?'

Whenever I see the holplessness in the mother's face and hear the dad holding it all together it brings a lump to my throat. An enduring image yes, just like one I saw of an Iraqi child in a hospital bed crying with shrapnel wounds in his side. Of course it's natural to feel differently to that we can personalise than to something that appears more 'abstract', something yo can't put a face to, but we know there's as much pain involved for the individuals, but where do we start?

Of course how the tabloids treat these incidents is another thing, and no, I never confuse the two.

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