Saturday, January 17, 2009
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
PJM: Gaza vs. Congo: A Tale of Media Double Standards - '...So, what makes a reporter decide to write yet another article about the crisis in Gaza rather than break the news from the DRC? The only plausible explanation for this disproportionate coverage is racism. It seems that while no one wants to read about another thousand dead Africans, everyone wants to read about those "warmongering Jews." And so a pogrom of media reporting begins.'
The argument is clearly skewed, since it's not a zero-sum game. Also, one could similarily ask why say Zimbabwe receives more Western media criticism than the governments of DRC and Rwanda?