Cope With It

U.S. experts join missing jet hunt – CNN.com

This article has really annoyed me in two ways.  It goes out of it’s way to mention that there was 3 Americans on board, but snubs the nationalities of the other passengers.  Why?  Are they any less human for not being Americans?  Are they any less valued?  When our media stops this kind of arrogant reporting then the rest of the world will begin to stop perceiving us as “Ugly” Americans.

Also there is a parenthetical reference at the end where it mentions a plane landing at an airport hundereds of kilometers (miles) off course.  One kilometer and mile are not equivalent, if you are going to do this give actual measures to show the relationship between them.  But more importantly if people are so ignorant that they cannot understand that a kilometer is a measure of distance then trying to equate them will only further their ignorance.