‘Quality of Life’ — the Immoral Consideration

[FrankGSterleJr]

WITH news-stories’ human subjects’ race and culture dictating
quantity of media coverage of even the poorest of souls,
a renowned newsman formulated a startling equation
justly implicating collective humanity’s news-consuming callousness
— “A hundred Pakistanis going off a mountain in a bus
make less of a story than three Englishmen drowning in the Thames.”
.
According to this unjust news-media mentality reasonably deduced
five hundred prolongedly-war-weary Middle Eastern Arabs getting blown
to bits in the same day perhaps should take up even less space and airtime.
.
So readily learned is the tiny token short story buried in the bottom
right-hand corner of the newspaper’s last page, the so brief account
involving a long-lasting war about which there’s virtually absolutely
nothing civil; therefore caught in the warring web are civilians most
unfortunate, most weak, the very most in need of peace and civility.
.
And it’s naught but business as usual in the damned nations
where such severe suffering almost entirely dominates the
fractured structured daily routine of civilian slaughter
(plus that of the odd well-armed henchman) mostly by means
of bomb blasts from incendiary explosive devices, rock-fire fragments
and shell shock readily shared with freshly shredded shrapnel wounds
resulting from smart bombs often launched for the
stupidest of reasons into crowded markets and grade schools. …
.
Hence where humane consideration and conduct were unquestionably
due post haste came only few allocated seconds of sound bite — a half minute
if news-media were with extra space or time to spare — and one or two
printed paragraphs on page twenty-three of Section C. Such news
consumed in the stable fully developed, fully ‘civilized’ Western world
by heads slowly shaking at the barbarity of ‘those people’ in that
war-torn strife which has forced tens of thousands of civilians to post-haste
gather what’s left of their shattered lives and limbs and flee. …
.
Thus comes the imminent point at which such meager measure
couple-column-inches coverage reflects the civil Western readers’
accumulating apathy towards such dime-a-dozen disaster zones
of the globe, all accompanied by a large yawn; then the
said readers subconsciously perceive even greater human-life devaluation
from the miniscule hundreds-dead-yet-again coverage.
.
… The immoral consideration of ‘quality of life’.
.
Consequently continues the self-perpetuation of the token-two-column-inch
(non)coverage as the coldly calculated worth of such common mass slaughter,
ergo those many-score violently lost human lives are somehow worth
so much the less than, say, three Englishmen drowning in the Thames.
.
Perhaps had they all been cases of the once-persecuted suddenly
persecuting or the once-weak wreaking havoc upon their neighboring indigenous
minorities — perhaps then there’d be far more compassionately just coverage?
.
The human mind is said to be worth much more than the sum of the
human body’s parts, though that psyche may somehow seem to be of
lesser value if all that’s left are bomb-blast dismembered body parts.

[Age]

you are just referring to the 'media news', from a very narrowed and even completely closed group of human beings.

It could now be said, 'This is how "the west" will think it will so-call 'win'.

Some, from "the west", believe that they have already 'won', but those ones have no idea what is, very soon, about to 'hit them'.

[Veritas Aequitas]

WITH news-stories’ human subjects’ race and culture dictating quantity of media coverage of even the poorest of souls, a renowned newsman formulated a startling equation justly implicating collective humanity’s news-consuming callousness —
“A hundred Pakistanis going off a mountain in a bus
make less of a story than three Englishmen drowning in the Thames.”
.
According to this unjust news-media mentality reasonably deduced five hundred prolongedly-war-weary Middle Eastern Arabs getting blown to bits in the same day perhaps should take up even less space and airtime.
.
So readily learned is the tiny token short story buried in the bottom right-hand corner of the newspaper’s last page, the so brief account involving a long-lasting war about which there’s virtually absolutely nothing civil; therefore caught in the warring web are civilians most unfortunate, most weak, the very most in need of peace and civility.
.
And it’s naught but business as usual in the damned nations where such severe suffering almost entirely dominates the fractured structured daily routine of civilian slaughter (plus that of the odd well-armed henchman) mostly by means of bomb blasts from incendiary explosive devices, rock-fire fragments and shell shock readily shared with freshly shredded shrapnel wounds resulting from smart bombs often launched for the stupidest of reasons into crowded markets and grade schools. …
.
Hence where humane consideration and conduct were unquestionably due post haste came only few allocated seconds of sound bite — a half minute if news-media were with extra space or time to spare — and one or two printed paragraphs on page twenty-three of Section C. Such news consumed in the stable fully developed, fully ‘civilized’ Western world by heads slowly shaking at the barbarity of ‘those people’ in that war-torn strife which has forced tens of thousands of civilians to post-haste gather what’s left of their shattered lives and limbs and flee. …
.
Thus comes the imminent point at which such meager measure couple-column-inches coverage reflects the civil Western readers’ accumulating apathy towards such dime-a-dozen disaster zones of the globe, all accompanied by a large yawn; then the said readers subconsciously perceive even greater human-life devaluation from the miniscule hundreds-dead-yet-again coverage. . … The immoral consideration of ‘quality of life’.
.
Consequently continues the self-perpetuation of the token-two-column-inch (non)coverage as the coldly calculated worth of such common mass slaughter, ergo those many-score violently lost human lives are somehow worth so much the less than, say, three Englishmen drowning in the Thames.
.
Perhaps had they all been cases of the once-persecuted suddenly persecuting or the once-weak wreaking havoc upon their neighboring indigenous minorities — perhaps then there’d be far more compassionately just coverage?
.
The human mind is said to be worth much more than the sum of the human body’s parts, though that psyche may somehow seem to be of lesser value if all that’s left are bomb-blast dismembered body parts.

Realistically:

1. The major news media are in the business of making profits.
Thus they will definitely emphasize on News that their paying readers are programmed to read so that besides selling newspaper [primitive] they can earned from the related advertising revenue.

2. Political Agenda
Most of the major news media has a political agenda.
As such, they are likely to be bias, support their political masters and condemn their opponents, even with 'fake news' at the expense of truth and objectivity.

3. Religious agenda
problems as in 2 above

4. Tribalism
The majority of humans are still strongly driven by tribalism, i.e. us vs them, thus generating 2 above.

The critical solution is to inhibit and modulate the still very active tribalistic instinct within all humans. That will resolve 2 and other us vs them issues.

[Iwannaplato]

Edward R. Murrow is the renowned newsman.