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The lamestream media told you:

The tragic crash of two news helicopters in Phoenix has caused the deaths of their pilot/reporters and is a tragedy of untold proportions. Here now with continuing 24-hour non-stop breathless news coverage of this horrific event that has ended, is another live report from the scene, with flashing emergency lights on stationary police vehicles in the background and yellow emergency tape flapping in the breeze.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

The unmitigated bias and gall of the news media was amply demonstrated Friday by the incessant and shallow national coverage of four people who died in an accident. Because the dead were reporters, their faces were shown on TV upwards of 30 times per hour, long after the deaths occurred and after any semblance of news value had ended. Other news was preempted for hours.

A widely promoted public mantra is that everyone’s life is equally valuable. The media’s actions prove they do not hold to such nonsense, or at least, that it does not apply to them.

Live reports of nothing happening at the scene continued into the next day, totally obscuring any other deaths suffered by non-reporters, such as crime victims tragically murdered and ripped from their families (estimated at more than 35 per day), accident victims (estimated at 100 per day from cars alone), medical malpractice victims (estimated at 270 per day, though the figure is hotly disputed and may be merely 27 per day), health victims including people who have contributed significantly to society, and others, who die by the tens of thousands all the time. No live reports from the scene of these events were known to be broadcast to American viewers, for unknown reasons.

Some reporters are reportedly in severe grief and may seek counseling following the deaths of the two pilot-reporters and two on-board camerapersons. Though reasons are still under investigation, eye witnesses said the pilots crashed their helicopters into each other while covering a police car chase from the air. The man now in police custody after the car chase may be held accountable for murder in the helicopter crash, according to the Houston Chronicle, located more than a thousand miles away in Texas.

Five days later the same story was still being promoted on the front page in Phoenix where the crash occurred. Ignoring the if-it-bleeds-it-leads principle that guides much modern reporting, the no-new-news crash story squeezed out the 267 other people (stats from CDC and other sources for 2003) who die accidentally every single day from electrocution, crushing, poisoning, falls from great and small heights, drowning, suffocation, burning to death, dismemberment in cars, choking on toys and food, and other absolutely horrible causes of death.

The risk you news consumers face from helicopter crashes is virtually zero, while the real risks you and your neighbors do face are fully suppressed by media personnel glorifying themselves with incessant non news on page one.

Reporters could not be reached to comment on this insensitive, cold-hearted, remorseless, uncompassionate, tasteless screed for the poor departed souls who killed themselves, “doing what they loved.”