(December 16, 2016 at 7:35 pm)Faith No More Wrote: It is big news if you look in the right places. It's not just Aleppo. The whole country has been a mountain of misery since the war began.
And you can blame the American media for lack of coverage, but the fault really lies on the people. The media just reports what gets them the most views and clicks. The average American doesn't have an attention span long enough to follow the conflict and is more interested in what some celebrity posted on Facebook or some stupid viral video like Chewbacca mom
I completely agree.
I'm not aiming this at CL, she posted this thread to try drawing attention to it and therefore did the opposite of what I'm going to say.
Generally speaking though, people will love to complain about "why isn't this getting covered?!" ... "Why is Paris getting more attention than Lebanon and Kenya?!" ... my response to these people is to ask whether or not they actually searched for information. We have the internet now, you can see world events very highly covered and with a range of political viewpoints at the click of a button. If you want to spread awareness of something that is going on in the world that you personally (for whatever reason) feel is being under-reported, do what CL did in this thread, post it on social media. Talk about it.
And you're absolutely right, the biggest news in the West is always salaciousness and celebrity gossip. As a whole society, we care more about Kim Kardashian "breaking the internet" with raunchy photos, and who is wearing the prettiest dress on the red carpet, than we care about the world going to shit. That's what gets our attention, we are so damn easy to distract.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
