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My scale comparison was simply about the media, and not about the deaths themselves.
As inspiring as that story was, GD, his life and death has no more or less value than the unknown young student who had little chance to achieve much of anything in life. No more or less value than the Iraqi peasants we have a hard time identifying with. Each death is tragic, and an unbearable loss for someone.
We see the irony of the holocaust survivor being killed senslessly by a lunatic, and we can perceive something terrible in that. We see, as flippyshark pointed out, American college students murdered - - and we can identify something familiar in that.
I suppose it's just human nature to focus on what we can perceive patterns in. But the mass media doesn't help us to look beyond that, and I feel it is failing us all in that respect.
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