Boston Marathon bombed

[Rhyfelwyr]

To those that say they don't care about this because it happens all the time elsewhere - I think you are misdirecting your sense of disillusionment/anger.

The fact that this incident has receieved more coverage is not (at least primarily) because Westerners regard their lives as more important than those of Iraqis. It is getting all this coverage because it is so out of the ordinary. A bomb going off in Baghdad is not news. In other places, it is.

I recall a few years ago there was an Islamist bomb went off in Kenya and that received a lot of news coverage. Why? Because it was a new development, and suddenly there were a lot of implications to discuss (eg, will Keyan troops become invovled in Somalia, etc). Meanwhile, a bomb in Baghdad is not a development, it is part of an ongoing and established process.

On the other hand, when the Troubles were happening in Northern Ireland, deaths from bomb blasts or shootings would often only be mentioned in passing, if they even made it to the national news. And these were regular white people, with the events happening on British soil. Meanwhile, bombings in Manchester or Dublin received vastly more attention - not because the victims there are seen as being worth more, but because those events were new developments. There's stuff that still goes on in Northern Ireland all the time that would get massive news coverage in England or Scotland.