Columbia

Along the same lines; 7 school-kids on a ski outing were killed by an avalanche in the Canadian rockies the same day. CBC-TV jumped all over the Columbia event and ran continuous coverage of the Columbia relegating the avalanche victims to regular news coverage. I'm sure the parents and relatives of these kids considered the Columbia secondary and were hurt when so little coverage was done in Canada due to the Columbia media event. Belatedly, undoubtably responding to criticism, there has been much more follow- up coverage, and much crocodile tears by the media. Along similar lines a local school class' entry in a contest was rejected by the Chicago organizer in response to Canadian government positions on Iraq. The new McCarthyism. And of course there was only local coverage of it by the spin-doctored media. I agree with Hans. The original purpose of the news- media was to provide news, not spin-doctored media spectaculars, however unfortunate the Columbia event was. Lawrence On 5 Feb 2003, , Hans Franke wrote: lgwalker@ mts.net