Quote Originally Posted by Kirkland Laing View Post
There are absolutely horrific events happening all the time in Africa that never get a mention in western media. So the fact that this got coverage at all is a positive. If it hadn't been a Muslim group and it had just been some tribal incident, like the ongoing stuff in the Congo, it may have possibly made one article in broadsheet newspapers and a mention on the BBC world service. But conflict involving Muslims is newsworthy, even to an extent African Muslims.

Obviously if it happened in the west it'd get coverage. Let's say even one or two schoolgirls were kidnapped in the west, it'd get wall to wall coverage at least until the ratings statred to drop and a new stroy came along.

But it happened in Africa and historically we ignore almost everything that happens there, same with the Middle East.



Yeah we TOTALLY ignore the Middle East in regards to media coverage.


As for ignoring what has happened in Baga, Nigeria....is there video? How many people live in Baga (seriously I can't find out and I'm on the internet!!!), I know the closest big city is Maiduguri which has a population of around 620,000 people (making it in between the size of Leeds and Sheffield for you Brits and about the size of Baltimore for us Americans). Now seriously on a world stage how do you expect this kind of attack to be treated especially when 1 side says 185 people were killed and another says "thousands were killed"?

It's my belief that this isn't huge news as communications are harder for those living in bum fuck Nigeria, the town is smaller than Paris, there's no video of the attack, Simon Allison of the Daily Maverick said “the nearest journalists are hundreds of kilometres away”, and for the Americans I can tell you that stories such as this Boko Haram attack don't fit President Obama's agenda. reporting on those attacks would beg such questions as "What are we doing to stop this?", "Are we losing the war on terrorism?", and of course The Obama Administration's FAVORITE question to duck, dodge, and slither away from "WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS?"


......hint: it's never Islamic Extremists