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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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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The Daily Mail front page is a photo caption not a news article. I really do think you’re mistaken on this, Sam.
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You are out of line, calling
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That's not racist -- Kenyans aren't a different race than Ethiopians. Can someone explain how the race that created racism has no idea what it is?
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Lol
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As a Kenyan who lived in the UK for yonks, am just shaking my head.
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Did you say racists?
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English Kenyan papers?
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Wooooow Kenyans are now racists....!!
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A new definition of racism
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These are our meat wrappers please. We don't have newspapers in Kenya.
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Rightly so as majority of the passengers were Kenyans! At a time when many Kenyans and others are mourning and you think they’re being racists -shows what scum you are!
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