http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6927389.stm
The past few days have been filled with stories about the bridge collapse in Minnesota; it is estimated that up to 30 people are missing, and there is an insane about of frenzy in the local media making sure our bridges are "up to par". My internet has been down lately, and I just figured that surely there must be nothing else going on in the world if all of our media is so focused on this collapse. But this morning on BBC I found in article that mentioned that 20 million people in South Asia have been displaced because of flooding, and an additional 200 are dead. If this were to happen in the United States, in that 20 million of us were displaced, it would be impossible to imagine the damage to our communities and our way of life. I fully sympathize with the families of the people missing in the bridge collapse, but I think more attention could have been on the victims of the flooding in Asia.
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I totally agree with you Whitney! After the bridge collapse, all MSNBC was talking about it almost 24/7 and I was like "is there nothing else going on in the world?" I'm very sorry about what happened, but repeating the same report 24/7 is not going to help anything other than desensitizing people! There are other tragedies going on in the U.S. and in the world, and we've got to learn to move on. They have no rights to rid people of their rights to be informed of other events!
It is sadly true that American media is so focused on America. I have found BBC to be much more world-oriented.
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