in the midst of the corporate news stories in late
the story of two hundred missing girls has received
pretty little attention compared to other stories two weeks ago 234 Nigerian
girls were abducted
allegedly by the militant Islamist group Boco ha ROM
from the government girls secondary school in the San be so
forest in Nigeria the Borno state schools
closed three weeks ago because of what the Guardian described as an increasing
number of attacks by militants
who have killed hundreds up students in the past year
the girls went back to school on one particular day two weeks ago because
they had a physics exam
on April 14th their kidnappers broke into the school
killed two guards loaded the girls into trucks and drove off
30 to 50 of the girls are believed to have escaped
the rest of the girls mostly 16 to 18 years old
are missing last week sum up the kidnapped girls parents came forward to
say that bo kho her oMG whose name means
Western education is a sin or Western education is forbidden
have threatened to kill them and their daughters the Nigerian government is
doing relatively little to find the girls
if you were to look at the front pages have your preferred American news sites
over the last 14 days or so
our tune into your favorite news broadcast you'd have maybe may be seen
just a passing reference to the story or none at all
over 200 teenage girls stolen
believed sold may be raped maybe some combination
and still American corporate media devoting almost no attention to this
barely a mention
on CNN in the LA times just to at least mentioning a little a little bit
giving more attention to this incident won't necessarily bring the girls back
we don't know what their fate is right now
but we know from experience that when when worldwide and particularly american
corporate media
take stories like this under their wings so to speak
it really points a very bright light
at what goes on within certain organizations within certain countries
et cetera
and there would be significant benefit to to notifying individuals to
to appointing light at what's going on in Nigeria but it doesn't seem to be
happening
David this is one incident involving two hundred people I mean how many different
things can point you in Africa
and where there have been thousands that's tens of thousands thats genocide
I all-out slaughter happening constantly I'm
there were light shed on that you know Cooper media talked about it
really not much happened do you think maybe that's what it is that in some
sense there's so much
that we could be pointing to and it
its a combination above number one feeling like
a one-story among so many doesn't really make sense to cover it
and at the same time the lack of interest in Africa I mean so much
we hear about a disproportionately small
incidence that in Africa are happening tenor a hundredfold
and we just don't see coverage and I don't I don't know exactly why it is I
think it's a combination these things were talking about probably out on our
with producers editors and anchors
are actively sitting there saying oh well there's two hundred girls missing
in Africa
well by using here's the thing sometimes
right the reason that individual smaller stories are covered instead of the big
ones right like
one kid missing star
or or tortured and eventually found in the US purses all of the ones in Africa
that die from hunger every day we say well
its personalizing it this is pretty personal its 200 specific girls from a
specific school it's no longer the
I behemoth 10,000 children today dying in Africa from hunger
you would think it's fitting that corporate media structure a paid
personal in a way that would lend itself to more coverage but we still don't see
it
I guess not personal enough when it is one or two people
one child Anders that this amazing story
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