Coverage of the Ethiopian crash is grimly revealing. Every headline focuses on the 7 Brits lost rather than the 149 people in total. Every story has a picture of the white woman who died. If no Brit had been on that plane it wouldn't have made the front page.
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Wow your followers are nice. Makes a change waking up to hundreds of angry right wingers calling be a knob rather than hundreds of Corbynistas I guess.
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(Also not true as it happens the Kenyan media seem to be leading on 19 UN staff being killed at the moment. But obviously have far more coverage in general than we do).
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Some of the Kenyan papers... bloody racists focussing on Kenyans not Ethiopians.pic.twitter.com/mEuzMN9TUT
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I didn't use the word racist by the way. And only one of those front pages only mentions the Kenyan dead. And they all have a picture of the crash.
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Two of them lead with the 32 Kenyan dead. The third has it as the lead bullet point. You were the one who mentioned the British woman’s skin colour. Why else would it be relevant?
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My point wasn't that they shouldn't mention that Brits died it was that most of them (Guardian and Independent excepted) didn't mention anyone else.
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The first paragraph of every news story I’ve read on this crash has stated that 157 people died.
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The Mail front page only features a picture of Joanna Toole. Most of the others mention the 157 figure but don't mention any nationality (let alone individual) other than Brits and the Irish man.
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Well, you could stop following me. That would be a start.
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Are there Kenyan papers read internationally in way BBC, online Guardian + Mail Online stories are? Would be interested if
@nytimes always puts main focus on US victims. We might expect more national UK media to show global mindset in globalised world -
I mean, I read/follow Kenyan media regularly but that’s just me. But why should they show a ‘global mindset’? They’re trying to sell products domestically, not internationally. By and large, consumers in every country don’t think ‘internationally’.
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Of course about national audience of most print readership. My point is about 1) UK media which has much bigger int'l online readership than domestic print readership (Mail, Guardian) plus BBC, 2) some UK media that might have global not just domestic horizons (Sun Times, Times?)
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Haven’t seen a hard copy of the NYT but they lead on NY-based UN employee deaths and the damage to US company Boeing.
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Yes I expect New York Times is most interested in New Yorkers! And US media generally more parochial than UK/Europe. All depressing to me - but I know foreign news is barely read, that's just life
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I agree that it is disappointing in many ways. But I think that what
@samfr missed here is not that papers led with images of a white Brit, it’s that the Brit in question was an attractive young woman... the conscious decision was over a victim’s looks rather than race. -
Not sure that makes it better.
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Wonder how long it will be before Lammy jumps on this...
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