> A better approach would be to limit the media exposure to the dry facts and give proportional attention to the deaths of people that die in less spectacular b

> A better approach would be to limit the media exposure to the dry facts and give proportional attention to the deaths of people that die in less spectacular but equally tragic ways. Unfortunately this would require very heavy handed censorship. You can imagine how Orwellian it would sound for a government to 'censor' reporting of a terrorist attack. Media organisations are in the business of getting viewers and if CNN doesn't reporting it then sensationalist-conspiracy-blog.com will. The real problem is that a significant portion of the population really does get off on this sort of thing.