I am sorry about what happened in Jordan.
Making the World pages back in Pune, I used to wonder about the daily mass slaughter in Iraq, you know; car bombs, shootouts, mortar, the works. Our deputy editor was the one in charge on Saturdays, and he'd always look at the bodycount to even place news on Iraq on the page — which is normal in most newspapers; I remember our RE in Calcutta talking excitedly on the night of the Rajdhani derailment, asking for the bodycount every 5 minutes. Unless at least a hundred people died, it was not to be considered worthy of being on Page 1.
Is that what it has come to: just the bodycount? Like Sachin scoring a century?
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