Comments on: Massacre In The Philippines

By: Cory

Cory — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:40:23 +0000

I heard about it on NPR. Is that more or less communist brainwashing than French TV?

By: Viceroy Matt

Viceroy Matt — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:09:04 +0000

The Newseum in DC has a large panel of photos of murdered journalists. Alarmingly, there is a massive amount of white space, presumably for future victims.

By: jr

jr — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:25:57 +0000

“it’s so far away, it might as well be on Mars”-cable news

By: Lonya

Lonya — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:27:46 +0000

It is not just dead Asians that are ‘uninteresting’ (although I agree with that point)Parthenon but anything that doesn’t have a US connection.

Global piracy? Huge problem for over a decade with huge implications for global trade etc. And not just off Somalia but the Straits of Malacca and more. Any attention to it before the M/V Maersk Alabama? Nope. Then it gets its 15 minutes.

By: Lonya

Lonya — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:17:42 +0000

People spend so much time focusing on the relative political biases of MSNBC, CNN, and Fox that they often overlook how totally devoid of content they are. This is paritcularly acute in terms of international news. It is shameful actually.

English-language French, Russian, Nigerian, Japanese, Dutch, Euro, and Mid-East broadcasts are available on my cable but I don’t know how available they are outside my (DC) area.

By: Parthenon

Parthenon — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:06:59 +0000

Serious. Dead Asians = uninteresting for the big American networks, unless it’s in the thousands. I had a project a few years back comparing two same-night broadcasts. The BBC’s lead story was a rather large terror attack in Varanasi, ABC’s was the death of Dana Reeve.

By: anotherbozo

anotherbozo — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:00:11 +0000

Network moguls here were aware of the story. They just couldn’t figure out any way to tie it in to holiday shopping…