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Hit in Hocky, or Bombs on a Madrid Train

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You hit the nail on the head, JHH. Although I don't watch TV news much; I usually read the papers. And I'm "glad" to say the Madrid bombings made the front pages of our newspapers, if USA Today and the main papers of the LA area are any indication (glad in that yes, it has gotten our attention). However, the "me first" attitude did seem to be at work recently in our coverage of the horrendous rail disaster in Iran a few weeks ago when some freight cars broke loose, exploded, and leveled several villages and killed something like 400 people. (Do we know what caused it? Was it an accident or a possible terrorist attack as well?) Even so, from what I could see, it received minimal coverage in the States. (I dunno about Canada.) <br />Or last month, when the roof of an indoor water park collapsed in Moscow, killing about 20 people. That story was big news on the BBC website, but you had to dig pretty deep to find it in American papers. It obviously wasn't as devastating as the Iran disaster or Madrid attack, but the circumstances were pretty horrible; about a hundred or so people were buried under concrete and glass, and survivors were often left lacerated and bleeding in swimsuits in a freezing Russian winter night. <br />But yeah, to whoever started this column, it is pretty sad that this hockey incident, brutal as it was, was given preference to the Madrid attack. I mean, this is likely the latest front in the worldwide war on terrorism. My parents must be especially upset now, because they were actually in Madrid a little over a year ago. (My dad had a business trip there.) Hoy somos todos espanoles. (Did I get that right?) <br />Although I actually heard about the attack in Spain before this hockey incident.
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