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Strategies & Market Trends : Africa and its Issues- Why Have We Ignored Africa?
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To: epicure who started this subject4/26/2003 5:13:11 PM
From: James Calladine  Read Replies (1) of 1267
 
X, in your opening post you ask the question "why the lack of interest....?" Or said in another way, "why so little news coverage...?"

I think the answer at one level is very simple. Most news organizations have become similar to "entertainment". Instead of being committed to reporting what of significance is happening in the world, they have become committed to:

"give the people that which will titillate and shock them"
(but within limits). Show the guns firing but not too many corpses. No bodies torn apart, etc.

Africa is not quite mainstream for the news media. It's the continent of the "exploiters" (mainly of natural resources)
in the form of huge multi-national corporations. They are NOT interested in news about their activities being broadcast widely. The civil wars, how they are financed, famines, atrocities---it's a little too RICH and VIVID a story. Much too BLUNT and full of horror. Not the right environment for the next commercial break.

As Michael Moore has pointed out in Bowling for Columbine,
you want people to feel a LITTLE scared, a little stressed, so they will reach for the next beer.

Africa doesn't really fit into the "pattern" rightly.

Just a personal opinion, of course.

Namaste!

Jim
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