{"id":237882,"date":"2023-06-26T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=237882"},"modified":"2023-06-23T07:57:20","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T06:57:20","slug":"tragedy-vs-statistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/06\/tragedy-vs-statistic\/","title":{"rendered":"Tragedy vs. Statistic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/tragedy-statistics-medina-titanic.webp\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-237883\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/tragedy-statistics-medina-titanic-1024x819.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/tragedy-statistics-medina-titanic-1024x819.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/tragedy-statistics-medina-titanic-300x240.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/tragedy-statistics-medina-titanic-768x615.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/tragedy-statistics-medina-titanic.webp 1456w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>22 Jun 2023 &#8211; <\/em>The way the media talks about the Titian vs. how they talk about the hundreds of migrants who drowned are night and day. It reminds me a lot of how the media talked about Ukrainian refugees vs. middle eastern refugees.<\/p>\n<p>The last time I remember reports talking about a refugee&#8217;s death being tragic was when that poor Syrian boy&#8217;s body washed ashore in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>PS. This goes without saying &#8211; the loss of life at the Titanic was tragic and I\u2019m not trying to downplay the severity of loss.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/food-for-thought-logo3-e1567408196914.gif\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-142067\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/food-for-thought-logo3-e1567408196914.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>__________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Racket-Cartoons-daniel-medina-e1678774481899.webp\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-231508\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Racket-Cartoons-daniel-medina-e1678774481899.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a>Daniel Medina &#8211; My cartoons stand up firmly against racism, xenophobia, hate bigotry, and ignorance. Regardless of the political party one belongs to, if you try to take advantage of the people, you will not be safe from my pen. Email: <\/em><a href=\"mailto:contactdanielmedinacomics@gmail.com\"><em>contactdanielmedinacomics@gmail.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/racketcartoons.substack.com\/p\/tragedy-vs-statistic?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=549592&amp;post_id=130314442&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;utm_medium=email\" >Go to Original \u2013 racketcartoons.substack.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>22 Jun 2023 &#8211; The way the media talks about the Titian vs. how they talk about the hundreds of migrants who drowned are night and day. It reminds me a lot of how the media talked about Ukrainian refugees vs. middle eastern refugees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":142067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[1012,883,821],"class_list":["post-237882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-for-thought","tag-food-for-thought-editorial-cartoon","tag-migrants","tag-refugees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237884,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237882\/revisions\/237884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}