When the London subway and bus was bombed it recieved Massive media coverage, HOWEVER when the trains in India were bombed yesterday it made SECOND story on the news!
Are English/ American/ Australian etc people more important than Indian people???
Surely Not
2006-07-11 21:31:35 · 16 answers · asked by honky550 3 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Yes dmenx3, THAT is lame!
2006-07-11 21:37:48 · update #1
I don't know what you're talking about. I live in the USA and the India train bombing was on the front page of the two newspapers I read. Also it was on the first page of CNN.com, Yahoo.com, and USAToday.com.
You must be reading bad newspapers.
2006-07-11 21:38:19 · answer #1 · answered by Idunno 3 · 11⤊ 2⤋
Of course we aren't actually. But high powers in government percieve only world powers to be important. May seem like a whole rage against the machine but seriously. People yelled at Fox News when "The Simpsons" was interupted by the huge 8.6 earthquake in India. How lame is that?
2006-07-12 04:36:07 · answer #2 · answered by dmenx3 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That hasn't been the case here. The Mumbai bombings have been the top news story on CNN since it happened and was the top story on every news station I saw throughout the day. By the way 'here' = USA.
2006-07-12 04:41:16 · answer #3 · answered by cricket 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not know about USA or UK as I am from India.
Incidentally when I switched on TV last evening it was tuned to CNN and I saw the Mumbai Blast was being covered live. Then I switched over to local channels. I went back to CNN after 2 hours still they were live with Mumbai blast.
Thanks CNN.
2006-07-12 04:49:55 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on where you are. The Indian thing got plenty of press coverage in the United States.
2006-07-12 04:40:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know what paper you're reading. The bombings in India have been all over the newspapers, not to mention FOX and CNN.
2006-07-12 04:37:29 · answer #6 · answered by redhotsillypepper 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't think that way. First or second is not important. As long as the coverage is good, then it serve the purpose. Ok
2006-07-12 04:43:18 · answer #7 · answered by apple pie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have been following and saddened by the Mumbai incident.
I do not believe that people from a certain country is more important than the other.
2006-07-12 05:42:03 · answer #8 · answered by Vie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not of course not.... But it is awfully true the media discriminates the country with less power or non power at all. This is nothing new.
You know what! probably here where I live the media is not making its homework.
2006-07-12 04:36:50 · answer #9 · answered by El mundo es ancho y ajeno 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is ugly to say.. I heard about the bombings and cannot categorized such a tragedy. This is how controversy always start, and negative press; we tend to miss what really matters. My heart goes to their families...
2006-07-12 04:37:00 · answer #10 · answered by Kelly,TX 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋