An excellent example of media bias...
Practically everyone now knows about the murder of the cartoonists of Charlie Hebdo in France. The would be practically no one who knows about the real massacre on in Nigeria.... read this: How the world failed to notice, to react...
For once, the Catholic Church in Nigeria is asking very pointed and relevant questions, about value of life, media reporting, and the bias in information dissemination.
Practically everyone now knows about the murder of the cartoonists of Charlie Hebdo in France. The would be practically no one who knows about the real massacre on in Nigeria.... read this: How the world failed to notice, to react...
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| Dead bodies were seen strewn along the streets of this Northeastern Nigeria village |
- No breaking news cycle, no live reports, no international outrage, no hashtags.
- On the same day that 12 people were killed in the attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, at least 37 died and 66 were injured in an al-Qaida bomb blast in Yemen that went virtually unnoticed by the international community
- The difference in reaction to Nigeria and other tragedies was... about the value of a life - an African life versus a European life
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