What is perhaps more worthy of note than how many tsunami dead we've seen, however, is how many other recent dead we have not seen.

Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know.

When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract.

Bruce Jackson Quotes