Two events at Dalhousie are interesting to compare.

In the first, a few years ago, feelings were hurt of a small group of women dentistry students, to do with the women complaining about what some male dentistry students had written on a password-protected chat site.

The response of the Globe and Mail, CBC and Toronto Star was swift and, within weeks, about a hundred outraged articles and opinion pieces and columns and editorials were given prominent page space.

In the second, a young man, student at Dalhousie, was murdered by a Dalhousie medical student, the man being a business acquaintance of the student.

Men in North America are three times more likely to be murdered than women.

And yet the murder of the student led to only a small handful of straight news reports, ending today with the guilty verdict. No stream of columns expressing concern about men being slaughtered much more often than women.

To media, value of a few women's hurt feelings trumps value of life of a man?