Richard Attias at the Huffington Post points out the lack of coverage of the kidnapping of more than 100 schoolgirls in Borno, Nigeria.
The Western media has made barely a mention of this story and appears resigned to ignore this abduction, which is an act of terror and unprecedented barbarism against these students whose only crime was to go to school.
That’s actually not true. It may be true of US media, but it’s not true of for instance the BBC World Service – it was the top story on Wednesday and it got a lot of minutes. He probably had no idea how much coverage there was in French, German, Swedish, Spanish etc etc media. Be careful not to say “Western” when you mean “US.”
But anyway, if the US media are ignoring it, that stinks.
The World Service said yesterday that Nigeria had had to adjust the number way upward – they were now saying it was over 200 girls.
It’s awful.