Some dead bodies are more newsworthy than others
October 6, 2004
Guess which ones make the news.
On Sunday, one of the international news networks that regularly interviews me left a message which I could only return hours later. The producer explained that news had broken earlier in the day that two bodies had been discovered in Iraq, one of a beheaded man, the other of a woman who had been shot dead. They would have wanted my comments and analysis.
But by the time I had called back, the producer informed me that they turned out to be Iraqis.
“So you’re simply not going to cover the story then, obviously, since they're not foreigners,” I said.
“Point well taken,” he replied.
