Posts by dICE

  • My condolances

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    Originally posted by Baldwin
    which gathers more viewers for these


    stations to get better ratings: G8 Summit going on again to help Africa, or London being


    bombed?


    I don't know, but how many thousands die in car accidents in


    first world countries that don't make national news when incidents in africa or the G8


    summit (which has recieved a lot of press for a couple days now) are are on the


    news.


    That isn't an indication of how much people care. You might as well say that


    because the US gives billions to africa and no aid to GB that we in the US like africvans


    better than the British, which may not be true.


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    Originally posted by


    Baldwin
    OP means by a "3-min report" is that no one really cares about the African


    countries.


    The problem is that people do care about the African countries,


    The G8 summit indicates that, as does the tremendous amount of aid to africa. Bush doubled


    aid to africa already.


    What OP seems to me to be doing is taking the news coverage of


    terrorist attacks in London as proof that we don't care about the third world, but that's


    a form of tunnel vision that doesn't square with the facts.

  • My condolances


    Again I don't know what you mean. What is a "3min report"? News


    stories are published, in print or other media, and then they get used to line the bird


    cage. Ink doesn't fade faster if the story originates in africa, the online news don't


    flush african stories off the harddrive faster than european ones.


    And which


    president said "hmm well shit happens" about africa? Where is the G8 summit for London?

  • My condolances


    I'm not sure what you mean, iraq, afghanistan, south america and


    africa are in the news all the time. In fact the G8 summit is aimed at easing african


    issues.