"Facts" and "news" are not the same thing, and most media live from selling the latter. People being massacred in third world countries (and Muslim ones not least) falls squarely in the "fact" box, not the "news" box, unfortunately. With massacres in North America or Europe it is not so, fortunately. I don't think this has anything to do with color at all. I don't even know the color of the victims of that latest shooting. Do you think it would have not been reported - or even gotten less coverage - if they were all black or brown? It would probably have gotten MORE attention and been labeled "hate crime", as if any murder is a love crime.
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Date: 2007-04-18 10:07 pm (UTC)