Surprise, surprise, a cathedral burns in Paris, and US media gives it maximum coverage. A horrific flood, over 1,000 dead and ongoing human health crisis in Mozambique... well, we don't want to bore the American public with that, do we?
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False Flag like 911.
Wait for the other shoe to drop.
3 things will not remain long hidden.
The Sun, The Moon, The Truth.
USA Master of smoke and mirrors.
HeyHiHullo
Level 7
Apr 17, 2019
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That doesn't matter. Those are brown people.
mooredolezal
Level 7
Apr 16, 2019
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It’s crazy there was so much live footage of Notre Dame burning to the ground. There was other news going on at the same time. It’s like the world stopped. How about putting the burning of Notre Dame in the corner of the screen while we cover all the news that’s going on.
SkepticMike
Level 6
Apr 16, 2019
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how about all the antiquities that were destroyed in the bombing & ransacking of iraq?
callmedubious
Level 8
Apr 16, 2019
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What about the donations, given by millionaires to the reconstruction?? Millions!!! Let the Vatican pay for the reconstruction and give the millions for improve life of poor people. :'(
margarida
Level 5
Apr 16, 2019
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Really....you think the catholic church is going to not take those millions?? What you're suggesting would be blasphemy to them.
I said the same thing in response to people on Facebook praising the bazillionaires for donating bazillions. Surprisingly enough a lot of people agree with me
i am seeing stories on the mozambique cyclone crisis online on cnn, the guardian, al jazeera, reuters, some african sites that i think we in the west don't frequent, the world health organization, axios, the red cross, huffo, it's in wikipedia already, the weather channel and other weather-related sites, nbc news, abc news, fox news (but they probably found a way to make this obama's fault), vox and others. there is more than one story from most of the sources, as if they're on top of it. i don't watch a lot of tv so i can't say what the tv versions are doing.
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genessa
Level 8
Apr 16, 2019
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No-one's saying it's not bad when a dog bites a man but it's not news until a man bites a dog. People dying in floods isn't news because it's so frequent. Those 1,000 dead are about 6-7% of the annual world-wide death toll attributable to flooding.
[unisdr.org]
"Floods accounted for 47% of all weather-related disasters from 1995-2015, affecting 2.3 billion people and killing 157,000"
It feels brutal in and inhumane to be reducing these tragic deaths to statistics but that's answer to the question you implied above.
MattHardy
Level 7
Apr 16, 2019
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Stop blaming the media. Everyone from the New York Times to the Guardian and every national service in-between has covered the flooding. The AP alone has done at least nine stories on the cyclone and its impact since April began. News media doesn't decide what becomes big news.
Blame consumers that identify more with western Europe than Africa.
Xuande
Level 7
Apr 16, 2019
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@PalacinkyPDX That's true, but why does the mantle fall to the media? They feature what gets the most ad dollars and clicks. It's how they stay alive. Shouldn't we be demanding better consumers instead of better media?
@PalacinkyPDX Honestly, I'm guilty here too. I couldn't identify Mozambique on a map without cheating. A small percentage. The ignorance plays into a lack of coverage. I don't think it's a perceived lack of human value so much as ... uh ... what? where?
@PalacinkyPDX I suspect most Americans don’t know where Mozambique is!
@PalacinkyPDX Heck many Americans cannot identify where Canada is and we are your neighbours to the north ffs. I wouldn't be surprised if most were hearing the name Mozambique for the first time in their lives. Signed, a canuck "in Europe" XD haha
These are trying times for people like me who cares more about people than buildings
sandrarocks83
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Apr 16, 2019
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