Comments on: I miss/hate/etc. miami sometimes

By: Mark Gordon

Mark Gordon — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:02:18 +0000

Upon reflection, “Death Ray” sounds a lot more interesting than “Death Sturgeon.” Who needs sharks with frickin’ laser beams when you have a Death Ray?

By: Luis

Luis — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:45:29 +0000

John: yeah, incredibly the local news did not cover the latest in the Democratic primary at all. Murder-suicide got covered, though, and somebody hit by a bus.

Mark: incredibly, the local news found someone else who’d been hit by a jumping ray while in a boat two years ago. He got a stinger in the heart but somehow survived. They showed film of his stingray stuffed and mounted on his wall. Guessing this family won’t do the same.

By: Mark Gordon

Mark Gordon — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:41:55 +0000

I thought that sort of thing (fish jumping out of water and collides with boaters) had long been a problem with sturgeon. Where’s the novelty? OK, it’s a different sort of fish, and it’s at sea rather than in a river, but this isn’t really as unusual as the media are suggesting.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/us/04sturgeon.html

By: John Fleck

John Fleck — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:41:49 +0000

This highlights a fundamental failing of journalism. We report on precisely the *wrong* things, because it is the highly unusual event that is deemed noteworthy (say, a stingray death) while the ordinary (say, 43,000 traffic deaths per year) is obviously far more important but largely ignored because of its ordinariness.

By: Open Source Fedora

Open Source Fedora — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

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