Friday, February 16, 2007

No News is Bad News

Study: U.S. Media overlooked major humanitarian stories in 2006


By Haider Rizvi
Last year millions of people in many countries lost their lives as a result of wars, violence, disease and hunger, yet the major television networks in the United States did not tell their stories to the U.S. public, a new study on media coverage notes.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

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KadidiaTerri said...

Ah, yes...
I saw the poster for this "event" and decided not to go. I couldn't bear to listen to him tell the story in person. I didn't feel my presence there was important. Since then a friend emailed me the testimony which I read with the same rankling I read many of today's horror stories.

Someone commented at your blog that they wonder why al jazeera or the guardian haven't carried the story. I agree. Perhaps I'll tug the ear of the media guy I mentioned in the previous post.

KadidiaTerri said...

oh- the comment i just made is in reference to the full sworn testimony of Ali Shalal regarding his torture at Abu Ghraib.

I'll have a look at your other posts now. :-)