A good illustration of what links reportage makes or doesn't make. This story is about the things that were found after many years from the famous crash in the Andes which resulted in the survivors saying alive by eating their dead fellow passengers. The report here makes links to the Hollywood usage of the story. They could have, of course, made a link to the shrinking glaciers resulting from global warming. Given a choice between movie stars and the end of civilisation as we know it the film stars have it every time.
Of course I know there are other reasons for reporting it that way: human interest is the chiefest as well as making links with the readers' experience and current knowledge. But surely not beyond the wit of a good writer to dig out the human interest on an ecological story?
Nous like scouse or French -oui? We wee whee all the way ... to mind us a bunch of thunks. Too much information? How could that be?
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