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140 brown people are killed...
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...let's see how many papers put it as their main story. Because when they were going through the papers on News 24 before, only the Independent had it as their main story, and only two others (including the Financial Times, for fucks sake) had it on their front page.
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Hits home when you've got friends fighting over there, and they didn't need to be there at all. I know the shootings in America were horrible too and there's issues surrounding guns etc, but I think in 20 years time, the balls up and loss of life in this whole war will be one of the big tragedies of my lifetime
I thought that the Iraq killings would make the news more prominently though, because it is the biggest number of deaths from a single incidenct.
Just proves how twisted the list of priorities has become. It's awful that people can just not know or care and would prefer to catch up on who Brintey Spears is currently dating.
I think one factor in it is the fact that people feel powerless. It's really quite awful to think about all these deaths that get passed almost in silence in the news, how all these lives are being lost for nothing. Sometimes it's easier to bury my head in the sand because it seems that nothing can be done about it. I think that in some sense the society encourages it. It's far easier to sit at home and watch the news than voice your opinion and try to be heard.
I'll never forgive those two persons in Iceland who on their own decided to connect MY country and MY nation and thus MY name to this disgusting war in Iraq. I think it's fucking vile that it's even possible.
And 1200 black people, but I guess that no-one notices them...
Some stories are more newsworthy than others - even in the US gun massacres remain rare and this is the most bloody there has ever been. Unfortunately murderous fanatics killing there fellow country men in Iraq is more common....
A college gunman killing 33 people is more newsworthy than something that seems to happen in Iraq almost every day. I'm not saying it's right, it's just the way it is.
Also, it's far more difficult for journalists to report in Iraq. It's more dangerous, there is language barriers etc.
Tis true, we do share a lot of moral and cultural similarities. And with the amount of teenage gun crime in the UK right now, that college shooting could very easily have happened here. It's just made easier in the US with a more relaxed attitude to firearms possesion.
The complete glossing over of the whole Congo war is a disgrace of journalism. I'm not saying it hasn't been reported, but if a war with such a high number of people dying (3.8m last I heard) involved any western country, it would be WW3. Guess it doesn't count if it's Africans though.
You have to think of the target audience. The west frankly doesn't care much about anything bad as long as it's not happening on their doorstep. The media controls this outlook, they tell us what we want, not the other way round.