Poor Coverage by Some

Still further samples from the world coverage:

• Boy killed in standoff at Cambodian school
• Hostage-taking in Cambodia ends, one student dead
• Child dies in Cambodia school siege
• Child killed as Cambodian school siege ends
• Armed men storm Cambodia school
• Cambodia: Paco Rusconi, 3 year old Italian Hostage
• Child shot in Cambodia was born in B.C.
• Google updates and Yahoo updates

When read in isolation, the attempts of any one country's media to "localise" the event doesn't seems unnatural.

It is not uncommon to find stories structured to answer questions about who might we know from "our country" that could be caught up in this tragedy. The media generally seeks to find how best to bring the relevance of this story to its readers, listeners or viewers. That's logical. That's relevant. That's realistic.

But when read in bulk like this, the coverage from some countries is embarrassing. A few stories border on tasteless when conveyed in terms of: X number dead or injured, but none from "our country".