I just put on the news - every news channel the same story, the Space Shuttle.

Looked up the news headlines on Ceefax. Out in Zimbabwe there's been a terrible train crash, with at least 34 dead. So far as I could see that didn't get a mention in the news bulletins.

And yet Zimbabwe is about the same distance from where I live as Texas, and train crashes are a lot closer to home than space shuttle crashes, and in the real world I see people from Zimbabwe more often than people from America or Israel.