Originally Posted By: unsupervised Originally Posted By: thorCovered where? In Africa? I'd call it fair if both were covered here. Not gonna happen. Originally Posted By: IneligibleThe March riots were reported in many serious Western media outlets, including the New York Times, The Economist, Reuters and the BBC (eg March 7 and March 8) and even on CNN and Yahoo, so there has hardly been total silence see, now, here is where I go back to my hypothesis that you are just a troll and in no way serious about the outlandish statements you make. I know, it's fun and you get my goat sometimes. Of course, I know you are a moral man and would not, in seriousness, stand on the backs of slaughtered innocents, be they Christian, Muslim or otherwise, just to make a political statement about western media... right? All I'm going to say is it's a sign of the times when such things are relegated to the back pages instead of being on the front...almost as if the media decidedly turns a partially blind eye to such things in favor of front-page coverage on what brand if cigarette Obama smokes (or some such thing).
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Can you imagine...
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now that is not an outlandish statement
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Quote:Nah...doesn't wash. They'd have to report on both, which they won't do.This is bizarre. You are saying they couldn't report on a massacre in 2004 because then they knew they would have to report on one in 2010?And who said they would have to report on both? There were many media outlets that reported Jos that did not report Yelwa. Indeed, there have been many attacks from both sides in the long-running violence in Plateau State (there was an attack by Christians on Muslims in Kuru Karama in January this year, with about 150 dead; and other attacks by Muslims on Christians) and few media have reported them all.In any case, your thesis was precisely that they would report on it. On the front page. Your argument here is like someone saying that the sky is red, and when it is shown to be blue, saying, "Well, of course it has to be blue". Quote:All I'm going to say is it's a sign of the times when such things are relegated to the back pages instead of being on the front...almost as if the media decidedly turns a partially blind eye to such things in favor of front-page coverage on what brand if cigarette Obama smokes (or some such thing).I have no argument with that! Unfortunately it is a market thing - the news outlets present the news they think will attract the most subscribers.Both massacres were covered by the BBC, by Reuters and by the New York Times.
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Originally Posted By: bobaliciousWell I don't think its a factor, but that's simply because I have no evidence to show that it is one. This is not to say that I'm right and you're wrong, you could very well be right. But what is your reasoning, may I ask? Nothing?
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what did you expect?
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I'm a little confused really, he never answers the questions that I ask politely. Maybe thor is a masochist?
