Tragedy vs. News

Brian Doherty | 1.5.2005 1:27 PM

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."

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drf 20 years ago

well... we had several people claiming that we needed the appeals to pathos in the news.

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