Simon Winchester - Having been in the newspaper business for a long, long time, I often wonder, Why ...

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Having been in the newspaper business for a long, long time, I often wonder, Why do we actually need to know about something like a bus crash in Bangladesh that has no effect on us at all? That can be nothing other than voyeurism.

Simon Winchester

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Nach einer langen, langen Zeit im Zeitungsgeschäft frage ich mich oft: Warum müssen wir eigentlich etwas über einen Busabsturz in Bangladesch wissen, der überhaupt keinen Einfluss auf uns hat? Das kann nichts anderes als Voyeurismus sein.

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