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How typical: we Americans have to learn about this from foreign media because our media is obsessed about Trump.
by mikece 7y ago
How typical: we Americans have to learn about this from foreign media because our media is obsessed about Trump.
- adventured 7y agoIt has been very widely covered in US news since the protests / riots began. CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg, CNN, WSJ, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, Fox News, NY Times, Washington Post, USA Today. All have had regular coverage of it. 6 days ago, USA Today: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/10/21/chile-protests-violence-looting-and-canceled-flights-santiago/4051262002/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/10/21/chile-p... 6 days ago, NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/20/world/americas/chile-protests-riots.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/20/world/americas/chile-prot... 6 days ago, Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/10/21/chile-protests-santiago-dead-state-emergency/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/10/21/chile-prote... 6 days ago, CNBC: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/21/chile-protests-president-extends-state-of-emergency-after-riots.html https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/21/chile-protests-president-ext... 6 days ago, WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/articles/protests-in-chile-leave-three-dead-five-provinces-under-state-of-emergency-11571617543 https://www.wsj.com/articles/protests-in-chile-leave-three-d... And so on.
- WillPostForFood 7y agoNothing on the homepage of the NY Times today, above or below the fold. NY Times and other outlets did report on it, as you show in your links, but attention has lapsed. It feels like it deserves more focus as it could be a harbinger of more widespread unrest.
- nostrademons 7y agoSays a lot about the NYTimes. I usually use aggregators like Google News, Reddit, HN, etc, and heard about this over a week ago. The "more widespread unrest" is already here - there's ongoing civil disorder in Chile, Hong Kong, Lebanon, Iraq, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Kurdistan, Palestine, and Catalonia; ongoing civil wars in Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Libya, Mali, DRC, Sudan; and endemic violence and state failure in Mexico and Central America. India is a potential flashpoint that could go up in smoke at any time (they have a demographic bulge that usually results in civil unrest, and I've read many young people there believe Gandhi "should've been more violent"), while the U.S. and U.K. both face potentially destabilizing internal conflicts. If the U.S. goes up in flames the whole world likely will, as we've been a deterring force for many regional conflicts.
- namirez 7y agoI think the OP might have a point. Most of these pieces barely make it to the front page. Just take a look at the number of comments on the links you shared: the USA Today story has only 1 comment and the WaPo has 46 comments. Compare this with a typical Trump impeachment story which gets thousands of comments. So either the coverage is not good, or the audience of these papers don't care much about what's going on in the rest of the world. As a reality check, see how many of these you've heard about? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Ongoing_protests https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Ongoing_protests
- forkLding 7y agoThe media is obsessed about Trump because those stories bring money and is more relevant to American media and audiences, Chilean protests don't fetch the same amount of dollars or American attention.
- growlist 7y agoMoney is the only thing behind the media's coverage? I think that's a touch naive.