Does mainstream media give enough air time to stories about attrocities committed against women?

Question

I ask this question because i found an article, by, Amartya Sen, (1990) that estimated that approximately 100 million women were missing. I came across this in a small publication that devotes the majority of it concerns toward women's issues. I would think this would be big news, evidently the mainstream media did not. I don't remember hearing anything about it on mainstream or reading about it. Sort of reminds me of when Clinton was president and people in the states were not aware that in Rawanda militants were killing people left and right, i don't remember that getting alot of press either.

I should have added that Amartya Sen is a distinguished economist and Nobel laureate.

Answer 1

It does to the same extent that it covers such attrocities committed against men.
I would question the numbers in that article as well as the time frame with which it applies.
The media wants ratings. They want to show stuff which they can proclaim as "exciting" and recent.
It also depends on your location.
Not all news focus' on pummelling out bad news.
The media is not a law enforcement agency.
I'm sure they have files and inquiries ongoing with regard such matters.

Edit:
Okay,:
"In the late 1980s, Nobel Prize laureate Dr. Amartya Sen coined the term missing women to describe the great numbers of women in the world who are literally 'not alive' due to family neglect and discrimination."
"Sen estimated that worldwide, there are 100 million missing women."
So they are not really missing at all. They are in fact dead.
Millions of people die every year but this is not restricted to sex. So you are right, the media may not give enough air time to stories about attrocities committed against women but only to the same extent that they do not give enough air time to stories about attrocities committed against men.
They want sensational and exciting stories. A statistic stating the number of men and women murdered each year in foreign countries (her statistic was worldwide) does not satisfy as exciting and sensational. The media wants ratings. They may reference such statistics but there would be no extended debate on it.
What a pity.
Awareness may be a requirement for a solution.

Answer 2

I'm SICK of ppl "Victimizing" women!!! Actually, I’m sick of ppl victimizing people in general … this takes away hope instead of inspiring people to solutions.

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Didn’t realize this was a “World Issue” vs. “Woman” issue
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Instead of writing an article about 100 million missing ppl, go find them and show who, what, where when, why, and how they concurred being missing. If they're in graves, well the dead talk too (hire scientists to see how they died). What's better is the survivors ... they're the one's we need to embrace and pump love into ... to show their heroic actions, and how humanity prevailed.

Yeah, genocide has been running rampant since WWII ... during the Clinton Admin; the genocide focus was on the former Czechoslovakia. There were 7 other area’s in the world at that same time that genocide was occurring; Don’t remember them all … but there were 7 world regions where genocide was occurring.

Dunno why the Clinton Admin only focused on the former Czechoslovakia region ... but that's history.

Answer 3

I think most of the bad things that happen to the average individual is ignored by the media, which includes things done to women because they are women. And those who do get media attention are stereotyped and not treated, necessarily, as inviduals but are instead treated as public figures even when they are not. People tend to only want to report sanctioned stories and hear the most popular story over and over again. It's like the little kids who want the same bed time story every night for a month. I believe the evening news and other television is the same thing for adults. It is much more difficult to hear and respond to horror stories done to helpless individuals for all the wrong reasons. Especially since most of us can't do anything about it. It only makes us feel helpless and vulnerable as humans.

Answer 4

First of all, you are dealing with an estimate, and not actual data. Why would you quote something that has no valid scientific data?

Have you ever heard of propaganda? You do understand the concept of using publications to sway public sentiment in a direction that some organization wants that oppinion moved?

There are victims all over the world, and not all of them, in fact, only a small minority of them are women. Every time some soldier, the majority of which are men, steps onto a battlefield, they have become victims of humanities own inhumanity to man.

Do I think that the media gives enough air time to attrocites to women? I think they give entirely too much time to them. Why don't we just forget the gender as an issue?

Answer 5

The mainstream media barely gives airtime to anything that doesn't directly affect America. That's why more people are worried about Iraq than Darfur.

Answer 6

They do so when it is politically expedient. This is why the horrific treatment of women in Afghanistan by the Taliban became hot news after 9/11, even though it had been occurring for decades.

Answer 7

No. It seems that the mainstream media doesn't pay attention to any crimes against persons news unless you are homosexual or one of a racial minority like Black or Hispanic.

Answer 8

Look if 100.000.000 women were missing it would be on every channel and find its way into history books.