No smoke without fire, no story without Whitey
In November last year more than 200 people were killed in central Nigeria in clashes between the Christians and Muslims communities. You won’t have heard about it. It didn’t make the rolling news headlines. Whitey wasn’t there and he didn’t lose anything in the conflagration. The video footage (not that there was any) wouldn’t have looked like the thrilling money shot from a Terminator movie.
Posted on February 9th, 2009 at 7:43am under All around the world, Culture, media and sport
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See also: 80-odd children dead in Nigeria from contaminated baby medicine. Failed to make it anywhere near the front of any newspaper.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7874723.stm
As always, good flag.
Are you sure? Chasing a firetruck might make a pleasant change after all those ambulances.
Could you imagine the outcry if these mass murderers (as per Mr Rudd) have used white phosporus?
Oh, puh-lease. The arsonists were only using fire as an illumination device.
Be fair. I might not have noticed the “intercommunal violence” in November 2008, but I covered it (while also taking a poke at the UK Anglican church) in March 2008, February 2006, February again and en passant here.
But there are plenty of other places where it doesn’t hit the headlines. India for one, as covered here and here. Or Fiji