My friend Chad Puterbaugh and I opened a new Web site this week called Losses of Life. We started preparing it after thinking about news coverage of last year’s Fort Hood shootings. Our goal is to try to treat more equally than do mainstream media incidents in which people die in large numbers.

Read a more complete description from the site below. If you can, please take a moment to visit lossesoflife.com, tell us what you think, and let your friends know about it.

People die in large groups around the world almost every day. Losses of Life’s fundamental assumption is that these deaths are noteworthy no matter where the victims lived. Because most mainstream news media do not follow that assumption, we want to fill in some of the gap.

We attempt to do so by listing incidents from the previous week in which more than five people died. Each incident receives the equal treatment–same font size, same structure–delineated only by the number of deaths involved.