Wednesday, 25 September 2013

Media factlet

Not impressed by the much larger amount of coverage accorded to the terrorist attach in Kenya to that in Pakistan, despite the similar numbers of dead and injured.

I don't quite see quite why Kenya should be so much more newsworthy than Pakistan. Both of them are former British colonies, both have troubled pasts. Pakistan is a lot more Muslim than Kenya but I do not think that is the difference. One hopes, probably vainly, that it is something more edifying than some fraction of the Kenyan victims being white.

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