# Why do the 130k victims of the Tsunami get so much coverage? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [January 8, 2005, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-the-130k-victims-of-the-tsunami-get-so-much-coverage/283800 "2005-01-08T23:28:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2005, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-the-130k-victims-of-the-tsunami-get-so-much-coverage/283800/21 "2005-01-10T04:10:22Z")
> [@rfgdxm](#): > > When as a guest many years ago in a Hmong household, I ignorantly asked an elderly family member about what life was like before she came to America? She honestly answered, and told me of how she witnessed the Khmer Rouge genocide. I was unaware about this at the time… > > Seriously. Perhaps I should Google about that. Back in the very early 1980s, I had no such option. That Sally Field movie about this was released later. I think you are confusing Sally Field with \*The Killing Fields. \* She had nothing to do with the movie. ---
**Author:** ![rfgdxm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c0e974/32.png) [@rfgdxm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rfgdxm)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2005, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-the-130k-victims-of-the-tsunami-get-so-much-coverage/283800/22 "2005-01-10T04:18:59Z")
> [@Frostillicus](#): > > I think you are confusing Sally Field with \*The Killing Fields. \* She had nothing to do with the movie. Duh… I had been thinking about Sally Field early that day, and somehow posted her name instead of “Killing Fields”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-the-130k-victims-of-the-tsunami-get-so-much-coverage/283800.md?page=1)