05-12-2014, 07:27 PM
I first read about it on Reddit a few days to a week after it happened. The reddit thread was asking why there was little or no coverage of the story across the globe. I cant find the thread again but there were some interesting perspectives put forward.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to get everybody rallied to jump on the hype bandwagon and set the twittersphere alight with angry messages. I tend to agree with your 'some analysts'; these global campaigns are probably giving Boko Haram all the attention they wanted.
I haven't seen any celebrities over here joining the campaign, but I don't have a twitter and I don't follow any of them anyway so maybe they are, maybe they're not. I haven't seen any on the news wailing about it. There has been coverage in the evening news here although it didn't start until the US sent troops in.
I guess I see it in a couple of ways. If 260 kids had been taken in the US, Australia any Euro country or even New Zealand, there would be a mass of reporters on site, TV vans and shit everywhere and dedicated news channels doing 24 hour coverage of the events within hours of it occurring.
So what's the difference? Is it because we've come to expect it in that part of the world and it's not newsworthy anymore? Do we really believe Oh, that would never happen here..? I really don't think it's because we value one life less than another, well most of the world anyway, but I think apathy is growing.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to get everybody rallied to jump on the hype bandwagon and set the twittersphere alight with angry messages. I tend to agree with your 'some analysts'; these global campaigns are probably giving Boko Haram all the attention they wanted.
I haven't seen any celebrities over here joining the campaign, but I don't have a twitter and I don't follow any of them anyway so maybe they are, maybe they're not. I haven't seen any on the news wailing about it. There has been coverage in the evening news here although it didn't start until the US sent troops in.
I guess I see it in a couple of ways. If 260 kids had been taken in the US, Australia any Euro country or even New Zealand, there would be a mass of reporters on site, TV vans and shit everywhere and dedicated news channels doing 24 hour coverage of the events within hours of it occurring.
So what's the difference? Is it because we've come to expect it in that part of the world and it's not newsworthy anymore? Do we really believe Oh, that would never happen here..? I really don't think it's because we value one life less than another, well most of the world anyway, but I think apathy is growing.
“Two billion people will perish globally due to being vaccinated against Corona virus” - rothschild, August 2021