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>The only difference in value of people lives to global media seems to be their country of residence. Now THAT is politically motivated. Comments like this sou
by intopieces 14y ago
>The only difference in value of people lives to global media seems to be their country of residence. Now THAT is politically motivated.
Comments like this sound like an attempt to co-opt or subjegate the empathy that arises in humans when they read about the suffering of their own people. It's sort of sad, really, that you can't let us reflect on a tragedy.
- PeterisP 14y agoReflecting on tragedies is useful and necessary. We, the whole world, will reflect on this tragedy a lot. But the political issue (problem?) is that with the current media globalization right now all the non-US media and non-US audiences are overtaken with this incident and they will not be reflecting on the many larger tragedies regionally, globally, anywhere else. As always. While the world mourns for Bostonians, there are today 10 times more victims in a bigger terror bombing elsewhere (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22149863 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22149863) - will there be global empathy for that? Tomorrow, world leaders will call for action due to the Boston bombing - will they call for action on middle east bombings? Currently random media outlets in, say, Russia or South America tend to report a shooting in USA while ignoring a genocide in Africa. Empathy in media is already distorted, and I've no idea on how to get it back.