What We Call News
What is news? Tragedies and scary things usually, because that’s what gets peoples attention. But with billions of people to have things go wrong, what gets reported? The tragedy and bizarre mystery of the Asiana Airlines crash in San Francisco has had much headline attention. And it was a big plane. But buried at the bottom of my newspaper’s page 7 was another airplane crash the next day. This one in Alaska. An “air taxi” for people who live in remote places. All ten people on board were killed–five times as many as on the Asiana flight. But it wasn’t…