Tragedy vs. News
Regarding the tsunami, Alex Beam of the Boston Globe has some thoughts--with some sympathy for the devil, Stalin, along the way--on the personal distinctions between news and tragedy, and how "compassion is like a radar signal that loses force the further it radiates from our hearts."
[Link via Arts & Letters Daily]
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well... we had several people claiming that we needed the appeals to pathos in the news.