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>Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 16:06:20 +1000
> Damien Broderick <d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au> Re: Chomsky (was: Christopher Hitchens' Column) extropians@extropy.orgReply-To: extropians@extropy.org
>
>At 12:40 AM 10/5/01 -0400, John K Clark wrote:
>
>> >Chomsky has contrasted the high-volume media coverage
>> >of the Khmer Rouge atrocities with the low-volume
>> >coverage of the atrocities committed in the same
>> >period by Indonesia's US-sanctioned invasion of East Timor.
>
>>All atrocities should be condemned but to do it by saying my holocaust
>>is worse than your holocaust shows a moral tone deafness that is
>>staggering to contemplate.
>
>Oddly, that's exactly Chomsky's point. He's noting not just the moral
>deafness of the major media (who effectively ignored the Timor atrocities,
>presumably on the grounds that they were someone else's holocaust), but the
>actual deafness thereby imposed on readers and viewers.
>
>Which is what John's cite from Jeff says.
>
There is still his problem of equating tens of thousands of deaths to millions of them, as if one Timorese death is worth a hundred Cambodian demises, which he does when he argues that it is unjustifiable that one atrocity received more media attention than another.
>
>Damien Broderick
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