CNN - Twitter Rage - Outraged Over Times Of London Editorial Cartoon
Yesterday I watchted:
- Democracy Now - They showed the famine in East Africa and then the News Corporation scandal
- PBS News Hour - They showed the famine in East Africa and then the News Corporation scandal
- France 24 - ditto
- RT - ditto
- Al Jezeera - ditto
After watching this pattern - I SAID - "CLEARLY the News Corporation phone hacking scandal appears to be far more of interest to the world than are the onset of one of the worst humanitarian crisises in Eastern Africa in the past 50 years".
Keep in mind that if a PROGRESSIVE "African Activist" group were to ask why the balance of the attention has been fixated on taking down Rupert Murdoch instead of comprehensively addressing the Famine in East Africa - they would be called compassionate. In their "moral outrage" they would receive "progressive street cred".
Of course 'The Times of London" is not a progressive newspaper.
It is a part of the News Corporation empire. Thus when IT asks the world about its priorities - (wait for it. wait for it...................) it is USING BLACK AFRICANS for the sake of taking the heat off of their scandal.
The benefit of the INDICTMENT.
It can be used as a sword or a request for an olive branch to be cast.
The truth is that REGARDLESS of the source of the editorial cartoon in the Rupert Murdoch paper - IT IS TRUE that the real value of "Starving Africans" is a function of those who have the power of "Moral Indictment" to compel the world to FOCUS ON THE PRIORITIES.
Similarly the targeted bombing of Somalia by the United States at a time where there is mass starvation - is a muffled protest based upon the power of this moral standing to withhold indictments. The collateral damage of the protest is always in mind.
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