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

[FloordrobeIsGoingToGetME]

unless I've missed it?

BBC News, BBC Breakfast has had several segments dedicated to how to get Oasis tickets, on sale launched, warnings against resale.

In fact the BBC 1 current show has had at least 10 minutes dedicated to it right now.

Yet this absolute horror that women in Afghanistan are living, the erosion of their human rights, has not even attracted a minute of coverage?

www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/aug/26/taliban-bar-on-afghan-women-speaking-in-public-un-afghanistan

Does anyone have insight into the reason for the press blackout - it is really just apathy or is there more to it?

And if like me, you care about this, is there anything that can be done to stand up for human rights here?

The situation there since August 21st isn't just "typical" or "trivial" misogyny - it's women now being required to completely cover their faces and bodies and no being allowed to raise their voices or read aloud in public.

More trivial news:

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/mar/28/taliban-edict-to-resume-stoning-women-to-death-met-with-horror

I don’t think that anyone is disputing that the Taliban are beyond contempt.

But realistically there is nothing that can be done other than campaigning.

It’s not like Russia or South Africa where you can implement sanctions. Afghanistan don’t export anything we want, and we don’t have reason to do business with them.

Really the idea of ‘featured on BBC News’ is meaningless - there is no single entity called BBC News. There is no overall editorial strategy covering everything from news online (aimed at millennials and Gen Z who mostly access news on their phones) - to the Radio 4 twice daily analysis in Today or PM (a dwindling audience of boomer current affairs addicts) - and everything in between - BBC Breakfast, BBC 1 News, Newsnight, BBC News 24, etc.

There is no “most watched” - there’s ITN (who provide ITV and Channel 4 news), SkyNews, GBTV, random YouTube channels - all targeted at different audiences. The BBC has inherited the expectation as the “national broadcaster” that they can succeed in being all things to all people.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/c97e668pdnwt

@ElleneAsanto

It's on my BBC News.

Either way - my point is - this is a massive human rights story and in my opinion, it's getting the airtime it deserves,

But we are not even campaigning. Maybe people might campaign they were more aware of it.

Women are being stoned to death. Being publicly whipped. Not allowed to speak in public.

And the world seems silent about it.

Both are being reported.
Both are news.
Denying people enjoyment in the UK won't stop the heinous things happening.
Stop virtue signalling.

It’s like the Gaza conflict and the Russian invasion -terrible but unfixable -so they drop down the agenda

Virtue signaling in what way, @Werweisswohin ?

Oasis reunion = man bites dog = news.

Taliban down on women = dog bites man = not news.

QED,

It’s not just sex apartheid in Afghanistan. Women have been silenced, imprisoned, cancelled in fact completely erased as people. This is far more extreme than race apartheid ever was. Women are being kept worse than slaves, worse than dogs. At least dogs can bark. It’s not just breaching their human rights, it’s deleting their existence as human beings. It’s so awful to comprehend, I agree with you OP why is the world not calling it out, where’s the pop songs, the demonstrations?