You will all be arising early looking forward to those easter eggs tomorrow, but take a moment to think about the Death of Dungeons and Dragons co-creator Dave Arneson. Passing away after a two-year battle with cancer is terrible, but is this news really reportable? I am not undermining Mr. Arneson’s value in life in the slightest. All I am saying is that I don’t know why such a story is reported. This is one of the issues I want to figure out during this experiment. Does unnecessary Death news still get reported just because the issue of Death is brought up?
More killings in Iraq, this time a bomber in the Sunni area of Iskandariya, killing nine people. It’s got to the stage now, I think, that bombings in Iraq mean nothing to those who live so far away and have no direct relation to those suffering. It’s just another report on another horrific event which will be repeated tomorrow as it was today, as it was yesterday, and as it has been since the invasion in 2003.
Sky News added this to their ‘News in Brief’ section: a man opened fire in a busy café in Holland whilst a talent contest in a Rotterdam café.
I have to say the strangest stories have come from the USA. This time, a teacher under arrest after kidnapping and killing a Sunday school student and keeping her in a suitcase. It’s just disgusting.
Whilst this was happening in California, five people have been killed in tornadoes in Tennessee and Arkansas. It amazes me how people choose to live in areas where the local weather can be so unpredictable and dangerous. They call the route down through the middle of the US ‘Tornado Valley’, and you can see why.
Current Italian earthquake Death toll: 293. However, it has now gone from the front page of the BBC News website; clearly just another story now.
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