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These daily tragedies do not receive the attention they deserve. Comparing it with those tragedies that do receive public attention makes this clear. A large jumbo jet can carry up to 600 passengers.3 The number of child deaths is equivalent to a crash of a jumbo jet with only children on board, every hour of every day of the year.
A newspaper that would cover the most important events that happened in the last 24 hours would always cover the thousands of child deaths on its front page. The headline would be the same every day: ‘14,000 Children Died Yesterday’.
But newspapers tell us about the extraordinary events that happened in the last 24 hours, not the ordinary events that happen every day, regardless of how tragic they might be. This means that one of the world’s largest problems is barely mentioned in public discussion and hardly noticed in the news media.
Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 1 week ago
In Australia’s case its a choice newsrooms make. Even if we don’t concentrate on Africa, which we should.
Shall we spend the next 24 hours talking about the latest violent shark attack? Or the admittedly interesting, mushroom murderer but for the 100th time. Did we need to know quite that much?
Reduce immigration? Help children survive, its directly correlated with economic prosperity. It can be such a ‘right-wing’ project its absurd they cede that political ground to the ‘left’.