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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (44076)	5/13/2004 2:48:16 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794258

They were late to the party They were late to the party because it was just another African party. When the party involves people like us, they are there in hours, even if it's a much smaller party. Close to 5 million dead in Central Africa in the last decade, often my the most horrible means imaginable, and most of us couldn't care less. If it's one of our people, though, the word "evil" is everywhere.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (44076)	5/13/2004 8:23:56 AM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 794258

I agree with you that pictures are the key. One of the implications of that is that the people who commit the atrocities we don't see would never allow them to be photographed and anyone with a camera is a target so news photographers are excluded. The only way you get pictures is if the bad guys are stupid enough to make them available or someone inside rats them out. That's not a good way to set priorities for dealing with bad guys. The more this is understood, the less access CNN etc. will have and the worse our prioritizing becomes. In the long term, I think, we might be better off if the media eschewed pictures altogether. Of course, that couldn't happen so the question is moot. But whether it is, on balance, preferable that we as individuals look at the pictures given that their availability is arbitrary I think is arguable.