The Times, as of Friday afternoon, listed the number of dead from the North Korea explosion at “between 54 and 150”- just a wee bit less than the original estimate of 3,000. And here I was about to rip the New York Post for putting the earthquake story on page 34 despite the familiar magic number of “3,000 people dead in one day.”
Then again, coming out of a fascistic, Stalinist police state with no free press whatsoever, it’s hard to fault journalists for not getting at all the facts.
Posted by Stephen Silver at April 25, 2004 01:12 AMIn the media's defense (am I really saying that?), the early stories mentioned up to 3,000 casualties (which is deaths + injuries).
Then again, this is also the news from NK
Posted by: jaws at April 25, 2004 02:34 AM