to think that things are newsworthy even if theyre happening to non-white, non-english speaking people?

[Branleuse]

The amount of news coverage about Boston, which although horrible, it seems to have an out of proportion amount of news coverage, considering its still halfway across the world, compared to the much higher number of deaths of civilians in Iraq and Palestine (for example)

Was just reading some international news online and noticed this :(
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Another-rape-Anger-rises-protests-spread-in-Delhi-as-5-year-old-victim-battles-for-life/articleshow/19631652.cms

Im not sure why we hear more about the white tourist that got raped, than about that.
I could trawl the news for examples

Whats it all about?? It makes me uneasy

[MadCap]

Further to what Dontmind said places like Syria, Iran and North Korea are closed off and don't have free press. It's dangerous and expensive to report from there.

[Branleuse]

some people seem to think that this is something im imagining?

[StuntGirl]

I sort of agree. I realise that a bomb at a marathon in Boston is more rare, therefore more 'interesting' news than another bomb in Syria. But I don't want to see it as the lead news story for a bloody week because I don't think it is that important or relevant to Britain. Report the story, sure. But headline news, still? Nope. Not interested.

I tend to skip over a lot of American news, unless it happens to be a particularly relevant story. Not out of any kind of anti-Americanism, but just because it is not relevant to me. For example, I pay more attention to stories of hurricanes in Florida than most due to having friends there. But just because I personally know people there doesn't mean that news should dominate for everyone else. In fact I often skip British news outlets altogether and read my friends local news for updates anyway.

[StuntGirl]

Also, I thought the same as flipchart

[LaVolcan]

.. and the earthquake in Iran has been completely ignored since the first reports, even on the Middle East and Asia sections,(unless the links in Arabic and Persian say something about it).

Don't those people count?

[StuntGirl]

Exactly my issue baby. If we were in Boston I could perhaps understand it more!

[LaVolcan]

Now there has been an explosion at the French Embassy in Libya. It makes the front page of the BBC news as a one-line mention, whereas the Boston bombings are considered to be the second item of news and get a whole paragraph and a picture.

[fromparistoberlin]

I am also really fucked off about Boston coverage. I hate to say it, as it feels disrespectful to the victims, but I am baffled as to why we are reading report after report......

a major bomb killed more people in syria this week
That waco explosion (TX) also killed and injured far more people

It baffles me, whats in their heads that they think this is still front page news?