It’s Not the Dying, It’s the Way They Die
that either gets or loses the press coverage. Dr. Sanity points to a post at The Belmont Club: In our valley of tears, in which Wretchard quotes some of the sad facts of life in countries other than Iraq.
As many people die prematurely in Zimbabwe in one week as in one month in Iraq when the violence is at its worst, he said. In October, 3,700 people died in Iraq.The reason that doesn’t get the press that deaths in Iraq do is two-fold, in my mind. First, these unfortunate
“People are just fading away, dying quietly and beingaccording to Bishop Ncube of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Second, this isn’t a chance for the press to demonstrate how they can shape public opinion and push the situation in Iraq from success to failure.
buried quietly with no fanfare, and so there is little media attention.”
Strangely, the Darfur region, which itself has a death rate of 2,500 per week in the ethnic cleansing that is taking place there, likewise doesn’t rate much press - the US isn’t there either.
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