{"id":38,"date":"2005-12-06T10:21:52","date_gmt":"2005-12-06T18:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=38"},"modified":"2008-09-28T07:33:53","modified_gmt":"2008-09-28T14:33:53","slug":"other-body-counts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2005\/other-body-counts\/","title":{"rendered":"Other Body Counts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got to thinking about this when the American media was heralding the 1000th US execution since executions were reinstated in 1976.<\/p>\n<p>I remembered the media&#8217;s heralding of the 1000th American soldier to die in Iraq. And the 2000th. And the gradually-ticking-upward toll.<\/p>\n<p>What other body counts could the American media track?<\/p>\n<p>I have five suggestions for now:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.israel-mfa.gov.il\/MFA\/Terrorism-%20Obstacle%20to%20Peace\/Palestinian%20terror%20since%202000\/Victims%20of%20Palestinian%20Violence%20and%20Terrorism%20sinc\">Victims of Palestinian Violence and Terrorism<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mccl.org\/abortion_statistics.htm\">American Babies Aborted<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>Iraqi&#8217;s killed by non-Coalition forces since the invasion\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.odmp.org\/\">American civilian law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>Christians martyred for their faith\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Why should the media be bothered?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I don&#8217;t know. I suppose most people don&#8217;t care to be bothered with more body counts and statistics. (I know I don&#8217;t want to be bothered.) But it might convey at least the appearance of some balance to the media&#8217;s reporting.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe instead of body counts they could substitute some un(der)reported good news. Some uplifting, life-brightening, positive stuff. Ever hear of such a notion?!<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got to thinking about this when the American media was heralding the 1000th US execution since executions were reinstated in 1976. I remembered the media&#8217;s heralding of the 1000th American soldier to die in Iraq. And the 2000th. And the gradually-ticking-upward toll. What other body counts could the American media track? I have five &#8230; <a title=\"Other Body Counts\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2005\/other-body-counts\/\" aria-label=\"More on Other Body Counts\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[534],"tags":[641,648],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-todays-thought","tag-death","tag-martyrs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}