> CBS News senior correspondent in Kyiv Charlie D’Agata said on Friday: “This isn’t a place, with all due respect, like Iraq or Afghanistan that has seen confli

> CBS News senior correspondent in Kyiv Charlie D’Agata said on Friday: “This isn’t a place, with all due respect, like Iraq or Afghanistan that has seen conflict raging for decades. This is a relatively civilised, relatively European – I have to choose those words carefully, too – city where you wouldn’t expect that, or hope that it’s going to happen.” Like I said yesterday, this is the missing white woman syndrome applied to geopolitical conflicts. Civilized = White. There is nothing wrong with predominantly white journalists reporting with horror to its audience of predominantly white people about the deaths of predominantly white people in a predominantly white country. People are obviously concerned about other people who look and live like them. But you should not then claim that this is some unique event that the rest of the world should care about when you never cared about the wars in Africa and Asia between people who are not ... "civilized."