Missing Cal student identified among the 84 killed in Nice, France

[RandySF]

[dhill926]

2. wtf?

sad story. Think I just read that his family had gone over to look for him...

[KamaAina]

4. The hed implies that his life was somehow worth more than those of 83 Frenchmen

You see this after any kind of tragedy. "American identified as one of 204 killed in plane crash", etc.

[dhill926]

5. didn't read it that way...

[rjsquirrel]

7. Oh nonsense

This person's fate was unknown. So it's been a matter in the news, including in France. In no way does this OP diminish the non-American dead.

[KamaAina]

9. Certainly not the OP, and perhaps not this particular hed,

but that style of reporting on tragedies, over and over and over again.

[rjsquirrel]

11. Haven't seen it at all

Of course Americans are going to care about our own citizens dying, and for sure we seem to care less about mass violence in Baghdad or Kashmir, but we have endless syrupy sentimental coverage of most European incidents.

And yes you did call out the OP, or what "hed" were you referring to?

[calendargirl]

8. Hardly-what "hed" implied that?

It just stated a fact.

[Travis_0004]

10. And if a frenchman was killed on an american plane crash

Their newspapers would say 1 Frenchmen killed in crash.

[calendargirl]

3. Why the sarcasm?

It was always a tragedy, but there is now another face attached to it. I don't understand your need to be nasty.

[KamaAina]

6. American media always focuses on American dead in tragedies

At times it almost seems as though, to them, an American death elevates a tragedy to the next level.

[Dreamer Tatum]

12. Whoda thunk it: American media reports on Americans.

Mind boggling.

[FLPanhandle]

13. You should delete this response

It reflects more on you than any point you were trying to make.

It's not a good reflection either.

[RandySF]

14. WTF is wrong with you?

He had people in the Bay Area waiting for word. Are we supposed to think less of him because he was an American? By the way, the title reads 'CAL STUDENT'.

[SheilaT]

15. American Lives, sung by Robbie O'Connell.

Sums it up nicely.