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. click here to read more |
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Please take a look at my blogs.
afterthefuneral.blogspot.com
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.
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. :-)
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