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...HOLLIS public catalog opened to the Harvard community in September, 1988 and yesterday's crash was the longest the system has been down since its opening. "The last time HOLLIS crashed was July 26, 1989," said Ed P. Tallent, reference librarian at Lamont Library...
...files on HOLLIS were backed up, so no information was lost in the crash...
...disproportion seems to be based on economic as well as ethnic factors. Air crashes, which entail millions of dollars in losses and mainly affect the affluent middle class, especially outside the U.S., command far more coverage than less glamorous causes of violent death. On the same day that the New York Times was giving front-page play to both air accidents last month, it carried three paragraphs at the bottom of an inside page about rebel action in Kabul, Afghanistan, that killed twelve people and wounded 17. Also in the crash aftermath, an alleged coup attempt in Burkina Faso that...
...fair, there were logistical reasons for the disparity. The USAir accident took place only a taxi ride away from the headquarters of the three networks and many other news organizations -- indeed, a CBS News producer was in the plane when it crashed and filed a report from the wreckage -- while the remains of the UTA airliner were scattered over 40 sq. mi. of remote desert. The LaGuardia crash offered both the surefire appeal of a happy ending for most passengers and a host of survivors available for interviews. The apparent cause of the USAir crash was quickly identified as pilot...
...nothing to mitigate it. As Columbia University professor Herbert Gans noted in his 1980 study Deciding What's News, network journalists in the 1960s tried to prick their bosses' consciences by assembling "a Racial Equivalence Scale, showing the minimum number of people who had to die in airline crashes in different countries before the crash became newsworthy . . . One hundred Czechs were equal to 43 Frenchmen, and the Paraguayans were at the bottom." Such bias seems widespread. Fleet Street reporters have traditionally voiced, in a blatantly racist and jingoist phrase, the equivalence of "1,000 Wogs, 50 Frogs and one Briton...