to think that nearly 200 people being killed in Nigeria should be more newsworthy

[ElaineBenes]

What happened in Kano over the weekend is not even on the front pages of the so called international news websites like the BBC. I've had to search for any reporting on it.

Can you imagine if such a thing had happened to people in a rich country?

I think it's really sad that Africans dying isn't considered newsworthy. Are we really that racist?

Why is it racist? There are people dying all over the world in different circumstances..... Not everyone's tragedies can be reported.

I remember reading this somewhere (in relation to news reports):

1 person dies it's a tragedy.

1,000 people die it's a statistic.

Sad but true

lol at racist

sadly I think you're right. some tragedies are more newsworthy than others - there is some kind of odd formula which I can't quite replicate based on... distance to UK,number of deaths, colour of victims, cuteness of victims, bizarreness of cause of death, number of deaths, number of british holiday makers involved

Fucking hell Fabby I can't believe you just said that

OP, as others have said...there are people dying all over the world, they can't report everything.

One of the nicest, bravest people I ever met was Nigerian. Try though I did, I couldn't find your comment funny Fabby.

Ay, how is that racist?

It's obviously far more personal to you OP. But to call non-reporting racist is ridiculous.

I do think it's racist. Even the attacks in Mumbai (which killed white people as well) was top news for days afterwards.

Here, a whole load of black Africans were killed. Oh well, on to the costa concordia story, far more important. Of course it's racist.

yes, we really are that racist.

one blonde girl went missing and the world turned itself upside down looking for her. at the same time i remember someone on here linked to another little girl going missing and even i cant recall the details.

we live in a very racist world, and the saddest part of it is that we accept it.

Agree with Kew - the papers can't report everything but it was a brave report from Ethiopia that got the aid rolling back in the '80's

I've been watching Zim slide into a mess for years and it rarely gets reported

And I think your comment is incredibly offensive Fabby.

I'm not Nigerian BTW but I do have colleagues who were in Kano at the time and who have been evacuated. They're pretty shaken up.

I was interested in reading more about what happened but was surprised at how scant the reporting was.

I worked for an internet competition site Fabby - never came across one successful Nigerian scammer but quite a pile of unpleasant British ones.

Still not an appropriate comment on a thread about 200 people dying.

Unfortunately there are so many tragedies in Africa that a 'mere' 200 deaths doesn't even register. The Costa Concordia is close to home and involved Brits, plus it is proper news, it has never happened before. I think labling the reporting or not of deaths in Africa as racist is ridiculous btw.

The Mumbai attacks were completely different. .... 11 coordinated attacks against all nationalities accross Mumbai killing or injuring over 500 is a tad different ....

FFS Fabby are you that insensitive and/or racist?

You wouldn't be making those kind of jokes if, say, 200 French people had been killed.

Fabby - that's low, even for you.

I totally agree - fecking slebrity relationship tosh gets more coverage .
And yes, it's racist. And economy-ist (they are just not 'important' enough). And cultur-ist. And many other -isms that I cannot think of.

Really cookcleaner. I actually think it was quite similar - other than very few white people, if at all, were hurt in Kano.

Nearly 200 people being killed in america in bomb attacks would have been all over the news. If it had happened in France, Germany, Italy - all over the news.

It is true that the same story is more or less newsworthy depending where it is happening.

I remember hearing that Shahbaz Bhatti had been assassinated. In passing. Not in any top story sort of way. More in an 'arsenal beat man u by three goals to nil, a cat stuck up a tree got rescued by a man wearing a tutu and some bloke got killed somewhere, or something' kind of way.

Seems to me that if it happens in America then it's all you will hear about on every news channel for weeks.

If it happens in 'our' part of Europe (iyswim) it will make top story for a week or so.

If it happens in the rest of Europe it will make top story for a day or so

If it happens anywhere else, it'll come after the footy results and what cheryl cole's doing with her hair this week.

Of course its racism - I'm amazed anyone thinks it isn't. racism is treating people people differently because of the colour their skin (simplistically).

Do you think that 200 americans dying in similar circumstances wouldn't be reported in UK?

I find the lack of reporting here curious, simply because of the size of the Nigerian diaspora here.

And because it was a extremist Islamist attack. These usually do attract more reporting, especially when there is a UK angle.

Fabby reaches a new low