300 Dead in Nigerian Riots...
And this article
is buried low on the New York Times homepage. This weekend's horrifying
terrorist attacks in India received appropriate media coverage. Why is
an Indian life more significant than a Nigerian life?
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More info on the Nigerian situation:
Here is a pretty good article with video on BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7756695.stm
Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/29/AR2008112900601.html
November 30, 2008 2:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
India is more "connected" and thus more accessible to the worldwide press. I don't think I'd read too much beyond that into things.
November 30, 2008 2:33 AM | Reply | Permalink
I think thats a good explanation for why the Indian terrorist attacks got so much more press than the Nigerian riots. But I don't think I was reading too much into it.
If a black man and a white man are killed in the same night, is it justified that the police give more attention to the white man's murder because white men are more "connected"?
The correlation isn't perfect, but I think the reasoning is similar.
November 30, 2008 3:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
I think that's a rather outdated sort of comment to make in this day and age, but then, perhaps I'm just too lighthearted and optimistic.
November 30, 2008 4:48 AM | Reply | Permalink