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What's a CourtTV Programmer To Do?

Saddam Hussein's 2nd trial begins today, in which he'll be held to account for his genocidal efforts to extinguish the entirety of Iraq's Kurdish minority.  In the grim Anfal campaign, Saddam did successfully wipe out somewhere between 50,000 and 180,000 human beings, with the help of his northern commander and co-defendant Ali Hassan al-Majid, aka "Chemical Ali".  This mass murder has gone unanswered for 17 years.

Meanwhile, former schoolteacher John Mark Karr sits in a Los Angeles jail, awaiting transfer to Boulder, Colorado, where he'll be tried in a 10-year old murder case.

Not to say the belated prospective resolution to the JonBenet case isn't newsworthy, but in the grand scheme of things, does it seem reasonable that (according to the scientific Google News story counting method) it commands nearly 3 times the media bandwidth as Saddam's genocidal reckoning?

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What's a CourtTV Programmer To Do?

Saddam Hussein's 2nd trial begins today, in which he'll be held to account for his genocidal efforts to extinguish the entirety of Iraq's Kurdish minority.  In the grim Anfal campaign, Saddam did successfully wipe out somewhere between 50,000 and 180,000 human beings, with the help of his northern commander and co-defendant Ali Hassan al-Majid, aka "Chemical Ali".  This mass murder has gone unanswered for 17 years.

Meanwhile, former schoolteacher John Mark Karr sits in a Los Angeles jail, awaiting transfer to Boulder, Colorado, where he'll be tried in a 10-year old murder case.

Not to say the belated prospective resolution to the JonBenet case isn't newsworthy, but in the grand scheme of things, does it seem reasonable that (according to the scientific Google News story counting method) it commands nearly 3 times the media bandwidth as Saddam's genocidal reckoning?