Wednesday, February 26, 2003 :::
Not again HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) A fire tore through a Hartford nursing home early Wednesday, killing at least 10 people and sending 20 people to hospitals, authorities said. One person was arrested, but fire officials would not say whether arson was suspected.
Part of me wondered, when I first heard this on the radio and there weren't any fatality figures, whether big fires are more common than we think, but are going to be reported more often now because of the recent large-scale tragedies. Last summer, for example, a kidnapping became national news every other week or so, not because the rate of kidnapping went up, but just because the media got used to reporting it.
I suspect, though, that every double-digit fatality fire does, in fact, make the news. In other words, it's not media inconsistency, it's simply been a bad couple of weeks.
::: posted by Steven at 6:36 AM
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