As to why I used the NYT. There are of course two questions:
Why did I use the NYT back in 2018?
Why did I keep the NYT stats rather than changing them out for something in the UK when I revised the piece?
To take them in reverse order. The answer to the second question is that it didn't occur to me to add a change like that to the "minor edits" I intended to make, and if it had I probably would have been too lazy to do it.
As far as the first question I don't recall, but I imagine that I envisioned a US audience, and I was wondering why more of the people I associated with (and who were engaged in what passed for the culture war back then) had never heard of it. Also MH370 was an international story, so I probably felt like I was comparing apples to apples.
I'm sure those answers are not entirely satisfying, but that's how it goes some times...
Thank you very much for your kind words.
As to why I used the NYT. There are of course two questions:
Why did I use the NYT back in 2018?
Why did I keep the NYT stats rather than changing them out for something in the UK when I revised the piece?
To take them in reverse order. The answer to the second question is that it didn't occur to me to add a change like that to the "minor edits" I intended to make, and if it had I probably would have been too lazy to do it.
As far as the first question I don't recall, but I imagine that I envisioned a US audience, and I was wondering why more of the people I associated with (and who were engaged in what passed for the culture war back then) had never heard of it. Also MH370 was an international story, so I probably felt like I was comparing apples to apples.
I'm sure those answers are not entirely satisfying, but that's how it goes some times...
But thanks again for reading and commenting!
That makes sense. And it's another reminder that you originally wrote this back in 2018.