Mid-east musings

Bad news is generally good news in the news room. Bodies, death, blood, mayhem are generally the words that get the adrenaline flowing on the editorial floor. That it results in journalists viewing such incidents in a very dehumanized fashion has often become the clichéd banter that marks water-cooler chats.
However, as a journalist who does a body count before deciding if the story is worth spoiling readers’ early morning cuppa and still retaining enough pathos to cringe at the image of a severed limb or an orphaned child, the Mideast peace conference at Annapolis is for strangely important.