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Submitted by Brian (United States), Mar 13, 2011 11:15

The reporter writes:

"The crash cast a grim light on a nocturnal New York City subculture of overnight gamblers, many of them older Asian and Hispanic people, who take cheap buses from Chinatown to casinos in Connecticut and New Jersey."

This is not factual analysis; it's emotional association. Has the reporter identified any relationship between what he sees as the "grim" economic circumstances of those taking overnight casino trips, and this terrible accident? Are fatal accidents any less likely in non-grim bus pilgrimages from Manhattan to the Hamptons, or in BoltBuses (a division of Greyhound) filled with super-wired yuppies-to-be traveling after dark from Manhattan to Philadelphia or DC or Boston? This terrible accident occurred in reality, not in a movie; thus, while a screenplay might associate those whom the reporter apparently regards as unfortunate with terrible accidents, in news reporting that kind of connection requires actual data.

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