Article on the exaggeration and inflation of death tolls in natural disasters and war zones.
""This is a historic disaster," she said. "We have never been confronted with such a disaster in the U.N. memory. It is like no other." The problem with such over-the-top rhetoric is that it requires a willful suspension of disbelief and no small degree of historical amnesia"
""This is a historic disaster," she said. "We have never been confronted with such a disaster in the U.N. memory. It is like no other." The problem with such over-the-top rhetoric is that it requires a willful suspension of disbelief and no small degree of historical amnesia"
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