During the Hezbullah war, a Red Crossambulancewas supposedly fired on by Israel, and headlines race around the world, causing hundreds of fraudulent news stories, what with the ambulance having never been hit by IDF missiles. But the world still got to read about it with their morning coffee the next day.
Sometime in the last two weeks, a Red Crossambulancedriver was murdered after having been kidnapped. Nobody knows when, because nobody really noticed, and nobody really cares—because he was a Sudanese, and he was killed in Darfur. Theambulancedriver wasn’t an Arab killed by an Israeli. There’s absolutely no news value in another dead Sudanese. After all, there have already been some 200,000 Sudanese killed in the war—two hundred times the number of Lebanese killed—and nobody really cares. It hardly even makes the evening news. I could only find a dozen or so articles on Google News about it.
Saturday, September 02, 2006
Red Cross ambulance driver killed, world yawns
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This is totally understandable.
The Sudanese Red Cross driver does not fit the media "template" (Rush's term) of what we need to know. One more dead Sudanese in the same category as a dead Israeli. Yawn. Like the media reaction to the fact that Armitage was the Valarie Plame "outer". Suddenly its a non story. Hear the sound of teeth grinding because they couldn't pin it on Rove. And what Scooter Libby has been through because of this, again a yawn from the MSM.
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