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KamaAina This message was self-deleted by its author.
sad story. Think I just read that his family had gone over to look for him...
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)You see this after any kind of tragedy. "American identified as one of 204 killed in plane crash", etc.
dhill926
(16,355 posts)rjsquirrel
(4,762 posts)This person's fate was unknown. So it's been a matter in the news, including in France. In no way does this OP diminish the non-American dead.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)but that style of reporting on tragedies, over and over and over again.
rjsquirrel
(4,762 posts)Of course Americans are going to care about our own citizens dying, and for sure we seem to care less about mass violence in Baghdad or Kashmir, but we have endless syrupy sentimental coverage of most European incidents.
And yes you did call out the OP, or what "hed" were you referring to?
calendargirl
(191 posts)It just stated a fact.
Travis_0004
(5,417 posts)Their newspapers would say 1 Frenchmen killed in crash.
calendargirl
(191 posts)It was always a tragedy, but there is now another face attached to it. I don't understand your need to be nasty.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)At times it almost seems as though, to them, an American death elevates a tragedy to the next level.
Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)Mind boggling.
FLPanhandle
(7,107 posts)It reflects more on you than any point you were trying to make.
It's not a good reflection either.
RandySF
(59,223 posts)He had people in the Bay Area waiting for word. Are we supposed to think less of him because he was an American? By the way, the title reads 'CAL STUDENT'.
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)Sums it up nicely.