East African Newspapers
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
Why do you think that there is so little coverage of the awful wars in African nations?
There are plenty of newspaper stories, tv coverage, books and articles about wars in the middle east, or Afganistan, or eastern Europe, and even now people are still asking about the Vietnam war. How come there's not a similar interest in the wars in Africa?
As so many others have said, Africa is not newsworthy to Western media. Whether this is because of not being able to understand or not being willing to understand is open to debate.
The same question could be asked of the political situation in Burma or the occupation of Tibet by China, two more long-term situations relegated to the "in other news" sections, if at all reported. Western media are only interested in stories that they can 'spin' for increased readership or political favour. News nowadays is a multinational business run by global giants. By controlling the media in a country you can affect its fortunes. This is why the media giants are known as media 'empires'. They write and rewrite the news for different markets every day and by doing so create more news.
Only one more word remains to be said
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