Where death really counts
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1287051,00.html
Richard Adams
Friday August 20, 2004
The Guardian
The satirical US magazine Spy, during its heyday at the end of the
1980s, ran a regular feature calculating the space the New York Times
would devote to a tragedy. The greater the number of dead US citizens
and the closer they were to Times Square, the calculation predicted,
the more column inches the Times would devote to it.
Every month or so, Spy would compare its prediction with the actual
coverage, and voila! the algorithm was proved correct - so a murder on
Fifth Avenue was worth hundreds of African famine victims. British
newspapers have never been quite so parochial but clever
mathematicians might bend their minds to creating similar arithmetic
for British media.
Richard Adams
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