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LETTERS, Page 8Forgetting Foreigners
Your article "Who Cares About Foreigners?" on how the U.S.
media cover death and disaster refers to a journalistic concept,
the "Racial Equivalence Scale," which shows the minimum number of
people from different countries who must die in a plane crash
before the press will report it (PRESS, Oct. 9). It seems to me
that TIME has followed a similar scale in its handling of a recent
accident. On Sept. 3 a Cuban air carrier crashed right after taking
off from Havana airport, killing 150 Italian tourists and Cubans.
You made no mention of the tragedy.
Patrick Paludan
Copenhagen
One reason that U.S. press coverage of foreign disasters is so
uneven is that the media cater to the geographical illiteracy of
many Americans, who don't know where most countries are located.
Why should we care about events that happen in some unknown place?
To help out its readers, TIME has to refer to "the African nation
of Chad." Otherwise they might think Chad was just another movie
star's first name.
J. Casserly Haskell
San Francisco
Tens of thousands of East Germans immigrating to the West get
heavy coverage in TIME. How about equal space for the more than
300,000 ethnic Turks who fled from Bulgaria to Turkey?
Ibrahim Kavrakoglu
Istanbul