The media has lots of other things it factors in - gender, race, importance with regards to the number of Grammies and number one albums, for example. Here's how the weekend's carnage pans out:
Amy 'Crackface' Winehouse. Although she's a wumman she's also English and has sold tonnes of albums. 6Music has been paying tribute non-stop since Saturday evening and playing her annoying nasal guff on a loop despite her mediocre talent and propensity for self destruction. She's the British media's top story as we all await confirmation that the smack got her.
This story was usurped by Wino's death despite 93 deaths at the hands of some blond, right-wing, gun-wielding fucknut, the victims were actually Norweegie. Although a lot of victims were white and some might have been able to string a few words of English together they weren't British enough, and none had two best selling albums.
Train crash in China. Only 35 people died so (a) that's a lot less than 93 Norweegies (b) the chances that any of the victims were either English speaking or had even a number one single in the British charts are really small. Add in the facts that (a) China's a long way away and (b) the victims were communists, it's hardly surprising that compared to the death of one British fucked-up junkie 35 dead Chineesies is a non-story.
Thousands have already died but aid agencies are worried that the number could rise to hundreds of thousands. Despite being English and having lots of Grammies Amy Winehouse could do fuck all to stop the years of drought and civil wars which means death on a scale unimaginable to us Brits. Not that we're that heartless; it's just that (a) Africa's quite far away, (b) the victims seem not be be Caucasian at all and (c) they're all probably Muslims...
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