Friday, January 16, 2015

"Terrorists Killed 2,000 People in Nigeria Last Week. So Why Doesn’t the World Care?"

" This silence is not accidental. There is a clear double standard when talking about Western vs. non-Western and Muslim vs. non-Muslim victims of terrorism. Terrorists attacks on the West, and against non-Muslims in particular, are sensationalized in the media while those afflicting non-Westerners and Muslims are normalized and treated as business as usual, generating limited public interest and, in turn, limited outcry from activists and institutions that could actually affect change... Reports about non-Western victims of terrorism are typically restricted unless they can serve a particular agenda, and we saw that again this past week with the media's ominous silence around Boko Haram's massacre of thousands of victims in Borno State. There are no neat narratives surrounding this "Islamic war on women," and no Westerners were killed. It was simply terrorist violence on an unprecedented scale perpetrated against Nigerians, many of whom were Muslim."
http://mic.com/articles/108192/terrorists-killed-2-000-people-in-nigeria-last-week-so-why-doesn-t-the-world-care

This article looks at the statistics on victims of Islamist terrorists, the selectivity of media coverage of victims, and provides information and context on Boko Haram.
This week, ugh, I have been so horrified by the media. Care about more than one thing - expect your audience to care about more than one thing. Feeling the minority status

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