CBC News: At least 15 people die in attacks in Iraq. ⇒
21 July 2005, early afternoon
There was also another bombing in London. So far no one has been hurt. The London bombing will get an order of magnitude more press than this incident.
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In fairness to the media, though, one needs to consider that:
a) Bombings in London are rare occurances, but bombings in Iraq are common. So reporting an attack in Iraq does not tell you something that you don’t already know. (Now, a day in which no one died in Iraq would be newsworthy).
b) The audience for the news (from CBC, CNN, etc.) are more likely to relate to London because they have/will travel there, they have relatives/friends there, the city/society is more similar to the one in which they live (e.g. lots of Canadians, Americans, Italians, etc. take public transit to work everyday), etc.
So, rightly or wrongly, bombings in London are more interesting to the news audience than ones in Iraq. Hence, they make the news.
by Ryan on July 22 2005, 1:08 am #
Plus London is full of goddamned crackers.
by Dave on July 23 2005, 1:05 pm #
Cracker-ass-crackers?
by ramanan on July 23 2005, 2:24 pm #
Well its pretty difficult to dislodge a feature story on Israel bombing an arms depot (without any casualties btw).
More and more people are dying in Malaysia and Indonesia because bunch of lunatic islamists want a state with sharia law. People are getting murdered and bombed with casualties that rivals Iraq and Afghanistan but the BBC / CNN / NY Times have a hard time reporting these terrorist acts.
I guess they are working on the ‘Blame US’ angle or looking for the thread connecting these atrocities with Iraq. May be then we will hear about it.
by Sunny on July 24 2005, 10:07 am #
Somehow I doubt that—it doesn’t take that much effort to blame the US. They did a pretty good job shitting on the rest of the world since WWII.
by ramanan on July 24 2005, 12:30 pm #