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CFLDem

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1. I bet big media thinks

Reply to Polito Vega (Original post)

Thu Apr 17, 2014, 11:56 AM

Apr 2014

their audience doesn't care about Africa "because they're always killing each other anyways."

Same attitude with murders in the ghetto.

Really disgusting it all is.

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News coverage of Ukraine deaths vs. Central African Republic deaths [View all] Polito Vega Apr 2014 OP

I bet big media thinks CFLDem Apr 2014 #1

Another, rather grim, option: "huge numbers of people die horribly in Africa" is not news. Donald Ian Rankin Apr 2014 #2

K&R Jamaal510 Apr 2014 #3

More complex than that. nadinbrzezinski Apr 2014 #4