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Blue_Tires

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22. Not quite...

Thu Jan 15, 2015, 06:29 PM

Jan 2015

Back in the summer when Obama said he was going to lend assistance to help find some of those missing girls, a WHOLE lot of DUers said the U.S. was just exploiting the situation to take over and expand it's WOT, so I don't know how that door swings both ways...

As I said in an earlier thread, if the region was ever safe enough to consistently film the devastation (and mark my words -- Networks LOVE footage of burned-down towns and mutilated bodies, no matter what their ethnicity) they would almost certainly be there...Another factor is it's impossible to properly cover what's going on in Nigeria without going into the world class levels of incompetence, corruption, graft and cronyism in the Nigerian government, and few networks want to dive down that rabbit hole...Also, for whatever reason, BH has never had the spotlight-seeking "Hey look at us!!" messaging and media savvy of ISIS and AQ...

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Nearly 2,000 people were killed in a terrorist attack in Nigeria this week . . . [View all] markpkessinger Jan 2015 OP

The Parisian attack helps to further fuel the USA's ever expanding war on terrorism, while truedelphi Jan 2015 #1

Sadly, you are precisely correct n/t markpkessinger Jan 2015 #2

Bingo. n/t hifiguy Jan 2015 #21

Not quite... Blue_Tires Jan 2015 #22

Your inter mingling two separate issues - truedelphi Jan 2015 #25

Couple of points Blue_Tires Jan 2015 #27

There aren't many Western news offices in Nigeria. Dreamer Tatum Jan 2015 #3

News is news, fly a team in, no problemo. No, cuz they're black and poor, nobody cares. NYC_SKP Jan 2015 #5

Exactly . . . markpkessinger Jan 2015 #7

Well, according to you, a healthy chunk of the dead had it coming Dreamer Tatum Jan 2015 #9

jury results Beringia Jan 2015 #10

This was alerted. Jury voted 7-0 to keep stevenleser Jan 2015 #14

Thanks. Interesting. NYC_SKP Jan 2015 #15

I seem to recall a couple of Ebola stories... brooklynite Jan 2015 #19

There's several western oil companies that take residency there along with Plenty of English adirondacker Jan 2015 #11

Nigerian massacre took place in a remote border town oberliner Jan 2015 #4

The Jamestown Massacre of 1978 took place in a remote region also - truedelphi Jan 2015 #12

No it didn't oberliner Jan 2015 #13

My apology: It was Jonestown In Guyana truedelphi Jan 2015 #16

Jonestown was led by Jim Jones former9thward Jan 2015 #23

Jonestown had it's own landing strip a short hop from Georgetown, 6 hours out of Miami Bluenorthwest Jan 2015 #17

Africa terrorism amongst black people doesn't concern Western press. NYC_SKP Jan 2015 #6

I was shocked at the Paris attacks, HeiressofBickworth Jan 2015 #8

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^n/t truedelphi Jan 2015 #18

Question: If there was wall-to-wall coverage of the Nigeria attacks in the Western media... oberliner Jan 2015 #20

If we actually did some serious reporting on Nigeria, we might begin to understand our LiberalAndProud Jan 2015 #24

Were the 2000 Black? Surely this wouldnt support my comments today about how white people kinda randys1 Jan 2015 #26

The big problem Turbineguy Jan 2015 #28