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I know the arguments about the war on terror(I am an english ,normal atheist),but the press attention is so pro-'new' news that hundreds of Iraqi innocents killed horrifically is not considered as important as the college atrocity.Surely all death by murder is the same?

2007-04-18 05:10:26 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events Current Events

I am amazed,flattered and pleased with the mostly intelligent answers to my question,clearly from U.S.A,the U.K. and many other places.I am humbled and happy to know that there are REAL people out there.Thank you.x

2007-04-18 07:21:49 · update #1

32 answers

Hey, it's good we can have a neutral person here to ask this type of questions. good work!

for this matter, there's only one simple explanation. people don't care about what happens outside of their country. it is only when it happens in their country, at their own people, they feel the pain.

im not insulting USA, it's a great country with many great organisations and companies (eg, Texas Instruments), yes definitely. but i feel that many people need to be more caring about the welfare of other people. that the concern should not stop at the borders.

we should not see ourselves as different races/nationalities. instead, we should see ourselves as one single race, humans!

Hope this helps, Peace.

2007-04-18 05:36:36 · answer #1 · answered by urbanvigilante 3 · 0 1

I agree with Johnnie C, but I think most people are more affected by the 33 dead in Virginia because it's so close to home. A lot of people may think that something like this could never happen in the US, but when it does happen it hits them twice as hard. For most people, Baghdad is a world away, and events taking place there get pushed to the back of their mind as they carry on with their daily lives. There are probably more people who are connected with Virginia Tech, who have been there, know people there, than people that are closely connected to Baghdad. But regardless of where it happens, on your front step, or on the other side of the world, killing is killing. These people should not be forgotten, no matter where they lived or how they died. Even though we may not know the names of the dead in Baghdad today, they are still human beings, so it should all hurt the same, but you cannot dwell on it. You learn from it, so their deaths are not in vain, so you can help save someone else's life.

2016-05-18 00:47:23 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0 0

Of course, you are precisely right.
All life is precious.
All death -- whether by disease, accident or homicide -- is tragic.

A person who has not personally suffered the grief of a close relative or friend has little concept of how devastating is the grief. The surviving family members have a lifelong struggle ahead of them to overcome that overwhelming burden of grief. They will seek resolution in many different ways but there will be triggers that bring it all back again in vivid detail.

The *commercial* news media is not just an information database; it's a business and focuses on "breaking news" especially the most sensational.

There is still a LOT of media attention about the death toll in Baghdad and other parts of the world.
4 Bombings Kill 157 People in Baghdad
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8OJ2I802&show_article=1

and an update...
4 Bombings in Baghdad Kill at Least 183
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8OJ7BS00&show_article=1

It is just not the **LEAD** story anymore because it is ongoing coverage.

The Virginia Tech massacre was a horrible, horrible tragedy but in time, it will fade from public view. Only those who have suffered a personal loss will be faced with the struggle to overcome their grief and restructure their life.
After the reports have been filed, the investigations have been completed and the recommendations made, people will calm down and feel secure, then complacent.

Most of the people in the self-help group Parents of Murdered Children have strong feelings about this issue as well as Citizens against Homicide. (Members of both national groups have suffered the loss of a loved one to homicide) Compassionate Friends is also a self-help group however it is for parents who have lost a child to any cause homicide, accidental death or disease.
http://www.pomc.com
http://www.pomc.org
http://www.murdervictims.com/CAH.html
http://www.compassionatefriends.org
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2007-04-18 06:41:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

I agree with you . my brother is in the army this august wil be the third time he goes to Iraq. Everytime he is there it does something to me both physically and mentally whenver I hear of a soldier killed or gunned down I can't help but to hope and pray it was not my brother. He is the only brother I have. You know sadly whenever I see the news and I learn that someone has been killed it doesn't startle me. Reason being I live in Washington DC this area and surrounding areas like PG County MD and other areas around there are like #1 for homicides. We are living in hard and difficult times. The shootings at V-Tech were tragic but nonetheless people are getting killed in Iraq every second of the day. My heart goes out to those families there at that school and also the families of the American Soldiers.

2007-04-18 05:48:16 · answer #4 · answered by ImOuThEreUdigg!! 3 · 0 0

News unfortunately is a biased medium. The process of mediation means that we only get a selected view of the news that day. People assume the News is an unbiased and truthful medium but it is still based on a set of ideological beliefs that constrain it. People in britain can identify in some ways the lifestyle of americans so the 'it could have been here' way of thinking comes into play. This is unfair but at the moment that's how the news works. Prolonged war means people lose sight of the perspective too, when at one time the story might have got attention, due to people becoming adjusted to it it becomes the norm.

2007-04-18 05:25:38 · answer #5 · answered by jarf 2 · 2 0

It is pretty awful, Iraq war is pretty pointless...but I think it's because during war, some innocent civilians are inevitably killed, soldiers will do anything to fulfill their duty to keep order and not get killed themselves. The difference btwn the VA killings and Baghdad is that the VA one was unexpected and sudden, it was just innocent college students living their ordinary lives while the Iraq war has been going on for years.

2007-04-18 05:36:29 · answer #6 · answered by mycloud 4 · 0 0

Not only do tragedies happen on a daily basis in Iraq because of war, but for thousands of years middle eastern people have been killing each other and only getting more vicious as time goes by. If radical muslims had their way there would be no one alive from any other religion. Then they would turn on each other. Reality is truly disturbing according to where you are and what you are exposed to. This shooting on our soil was a petting zoo compared to things that are going on in other countries as you are reading this.

2007-04-18 05:45:01 · answer #7 · answered by In all of you 2 · 1 0

You have a point but, in Baghdad, the troops are fighting a war and people expect troops and other Iraqi's to die everyday. The shooting in Virginia was so unexpected to the whole country and that is why it is getting more attention.

2007-04-18 05:15:43 · answer #8 · answered by AdrianClay 7 · 0 0

Because people are killed every day in Iraq and this hits closer to home. What puzzles me more is why all of the press over a sleep around drug addict like Anna Nichole.

2007-04-18 05:23:30 · answer #9 · answered by The man 7 · 0 0

Because that was a war. Here this guy just comes and kills a bunch of random people because he had problems. He didn't have to drag 32 other families into it. But because he is a pchycopath he couldnt of just killed himself. And also because this is in America and killing young college students with a whole future ahead of them.

2007-04-18 05:23:33 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

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