>I remember a remark by Joseph Stalin, “If a family dies it is a catastrophe. If a million die it is a statistic”! Papa Joe was an expert at creating “statistics”!
Yes, and then his people got involved in the accusing side, in judging the National-Socialists, in Nurenberg.
Talking about the importance of news, I read one peace of news - must have been ca. 2 years ago - about an earthquake in China that killed 30,000 people. The interesting part was, the news was 30 years old.
For some obscure reason, the Chinese government of that time didn't see it prudent to divulge the full scope of the catastrophe.
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
