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Originally Posted by nico-t
Happens all the time in those countries, and now all of a sudden the western media picks one of these and calls for outrage.
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It's not all of a sudden. The media has run with these sorts of stories before. Remember the
16 year old Iranian girl who in 2004 was personally hanged by the same judge who, one week previous, convicted her of "offending public morality".
Then in 2007 the media was all over the
17 year old Iraqi girl who was stoned to death because her boyfriend's religion was different.
In the intervening years dozens of similar stories received heavy media coverage as well.
The thing is, once any sort of outrageous act become commonplace, it's no longer news in the sense of being about about anything new.
And when it ain't news, it don't get on the news.
The public gets bored hearing the same shit over and over and over again.
The only reason why the media picked up on this story is that it - like the recent Nigerian schoolgirl story - had a slightly different twist to it.
Nonetheless, in the coming months reports of subsequent kidnappings of still more Nigerian schoolgirls will likewise be greeted with yawns from the general public.
That's just human nature and the media will always be about focusing on things that humans actually tune in to watch.
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Originally Posted by nico-t
I guess we need to be prepared for another coup fueled by the western countries, this time in Sudan.
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Won't happen. Sudan is dirt poor and doesn't have any oil.