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drieddust
on May 17, 2018
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How many deaths make a disaster newsworthy?
It is also who dies. Five American dying in Iraq is a tragedy worth reporting, a few hundred dying in American bombing is not so much.
Media is controlled (either directly or due to false sense of patriotism) or biased. Probably both.
merinowool
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In most countries media are licensed so they can't publish anything too harsh against the government.
drieddust
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Perhaps that's another variable dictating their biases.
O_H_E
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This annoys me so much. They are all Humans.
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Media is controlled (either directly or due to false sense of patriotism) or biased. Probably both.