Same story, different place

Posted on July 10, 2005 by Gene

Is it because they’re people we don’t know? Because their culture is alien to us? Because they don’t speak the same language? Because we’re so jaded from the frequency of the events?
Why do we not have blanket coverage of terrorist bombings in Iraq, where again today double-digit numbers of people were killed by a series of bombs?
This happens constantly in Iraq, a country where terrorist bombings were unheard of until the chaos of this war opened up the country to be overrun with terrorists. That doesn’t seem to be big news.
But bring that horrific activity to London or another western country, and it becomes a huge event.
I don’t want to diminish the death and destruction that visited London… but perhaps constant, commercial-free coverage of every terrorist attack in Iraq will cause some people to think about what’s happening there, who’s to blame, and whether there is any way of stopping it.