Sunday, January 25, 2015

The NYT explains why it doesn't mean news if a lot of people die...

Because when it comes to coverage, some violent deaths — to misquote Orwell — are more equal than others.
Such was the case earlier this month, when the Western news media, including The Times, was fixated on the attacks that left 17 victims and three gunmen dead in Paris. Coverage was wall to wall: In The Times, not a day went by, for 10 consecutive days, without at least one front-page story, usually two.
Meanwhile, in a much more remote part of the world, the radical group Boko Haram had devastated the town of Baga in rural Nigeria. Early reports said that as many as 2,000 had been slain.

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