![]() ![]() Those lives we publicly mourn and those we efface, Butler avers, express something about our ties to others, who we are as a nation, and what we perceive as our ethical responsibility, setting the stage for whose life is worthy of protection and whose vulnerability is not our concern. Footnote 1 Whose death is deemed worthy of recognition in the public sphere and whose is rendered invisible are quite another matter, as is how that loss is communicated. Death is a media-worthy topic because it is often unpredictable as well as disruptive, and negative content sells. ![]()
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