View From the Bushes

One of my "pet" interests is situations where a staggering number of people die with very little fanfare. As evidence check out my April 28th entry. The latest incident of this sort to come to my attention is the death of an estimated ten thousand French during the heat wave. Now that's not to say that it hasn't gotten any "fanfare", but take a look at the websites of several major news organizations. CNN has at the moment of this writing the story of the Alabama judge who refusing to remove the Ten Commandments. No where on the front page is there anything about the death toll from the heat wave.

FOX News is basically the same story. Lead story is the same, and nothing on the front page. Perhaps it's just the myopia of the american media, so I went across the pond to check The Guardian their lead story seems to concern a bank holiday, and once again nothing on the front page. Surely the leading french papers would have something so I checked out Le Monde. Now my French is not what it could be but I'm certain that it wasn't one of the top three stories, and there didn't seem to be anything about it anywhere on the front page.

Doing a little research it appears that the AP story which quantified the death toll came out yesterday. Now I understand that the actual death's took place a while ago, but am I the only one who thinks it's odd that so little fuss is being made about this? I agree that unlike many of the stories that are being extensively covered there was no malice involved in these deaths, but it still seems like a lot to brush under the rug as it were. In any case the next adventure will be out on Monday and by that point I'll figure out some place for every body to tell me everything the would like to see changed here at DireKobold.

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero
Ross