Why is 'Oasis warn against ticket resale' on BBC News, yet the Taliban banning women from TALKING outside, no?

Oasis is current ‘local’ news. The taliban is a news story from a few days ago, which realistically none of us can influence so there’s not much point having it front and centre. Harsh, but that’s the reality.

OP you know the phenomenons of newspaper revenues, popular culture, and the environment of late capitalism, have all been here a while!

People can care about more than one thing at once. And the (awful) Afghanistan situation can't be top of the news cycle for weeks on end. It can't be forgotten, but like anything else, stories have to make way for new ones.

Because bbc is in Britain.
Oasis are British and concert in Britain.
Afghanistan is not

Sadly there are appallingly misogynist regimes in many countries.

Iran, Saudi, etc

What do you suggest we should do about it?

Do we have the right to impose our beliefs on to them?

Them the Taliban? Yes. Because they are imposing their misogyny on all the women without worry.

Of course the Afghanistan situation is dreadful, but it has been reported and now something big in this country is being reported.
I think a better discussion would be what to do about the situation in Afghanistan?
Do we have the right to impose our beliefs on to them? Should the change be led by less extreme people of the same religious beliefs? Does the West have a right to police the world?
What would be suitable measures to take against the Taliban.

An entire country of women being told they cannot speak outside their homes or be imprisoned or worse IS man bites dog. If it was an entire country of men it would be front page news everywhere. It's because it's women.

Really depressing OP.

Donate to Women for Afghan Women everyone!

Not true.

There isn't a quota of someone conciousness that has a binary of things they care about and things they don't, there's a huge spectrum in between and it varies depending on that persons life and what is happening right now in their immediate world and the wider world and what they can effectively do about whatever is being discussed.

I care far less about Oasis than I do about womens rights but it doesn't mean I'm also going to engage in online unproductive outrage about just one of the millions of things going on in the world that I care about, which on this thread is focused on the outrage against the BBC.

And i'm not going to engage in snark against other women that they just don't care as much as I do about x, y or z.

Setting up fallacious arguments like yours don't do anything helpful or productive and is just snarking on women that you think you're superior to.

Sadly and depressingly- and the comments on this thread prove it-many women care more about Oasis than women's rights.

Because covering it will bring attention to the utter shambles and betrayal of the US government in abandoning Afghanistan as it did and we can't have that

High frequency news cycle. It doesn't inform you about anything worth knowing.

People should stop looking at the regular news, and look more broadly and deeply. Don't assume that watching the news informs you about anything useful. It doesn't.

There will be another day or two of it then it might shut up until the concerts next year, just a repeat of Taylor Swift really.

UK news takes much more precedence. If you want to find out more about news outside the UK, then the BBC World Service news is available.

Because the media wants to keep the Oasis hype going, more clicks

So you didn't really mean 'press blackout' then?

You meant, why isn't the BBC talking about it?

They're different things.

My teenage DDs talked about the women in Afghanistan last week, or at the time the news came out. They get their news from other than BBC sources. It was in the Guardian.

Oasis tickets news is a bit of a filler for the papers and social media.

Dog bites man (or woman) - not news, because not unusual. Man/woman bites dog - news, because unusual.

Taliban treat women badly - not unusual. It was reported, but has not remained in the news because (sadly) fairly predictable.

I hear you! I mean I quite like Oasis but why does there need to be saturation media coverage - as soon as the news came out you just knew that it would be across everything and it is

Because clicks/traffic/revenue.

It’s also more joyful than Taliban being the Taliban.

I only learned about it on MN!

Very good question OP. Possibly because the world has gone completely mad?

I hear you! I mean I quite like Oasis but why does there need to be saturation media coverage - as soon as the news came out you just knew that it would be across everything and it is. I really care about the women in Afghanistan - have written to the foreign office about it as I don’t know if any aid money goes from the UK to the Taliban. I think it’s good to care about stuff that’s happening in other countries.

This sums it up.

A friend commented once that you can post about DV/abuse/coercive control on social media and not get a single interaction, yet post a picture of your pet and you get a lot. People are all doing the best they can in life in challenging times, they just want light relief. Oasis right now are light relief