Thursday, August 23, 2007

The Great Popularity Contest.

What is it about people being set on fire that always gets the news' attention more than a more than one person being blown up (regardless of cause?)

Either way, I've stumbled on two disgustingly similar articles today, one a heartbreaker and the other very humorous (were it not for aforementioned heartbreaker.)

The first (CNN) is of a 5-year-old boy set on fire and horribly disfigured by insurgents in Iraq.

The second (Reuters) is of a Russian woman setting fire to her ex-husband's genitalia.

That both made the top of the "most popular" articles on their respective news agencies' sites has got to say something as negative about the sites they're on as much as it does about the people involved. Much more for the first than the second.

And that's why we can't have nice things.

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