Two of yesterday's bbc headlines:
Black Friday bonanza and a shooting in Oxford Circus, London (Britain)
230 people shot dead in a mosque (in Sinai, Egypt)
The one on the shooting in Oxford Circus is the main headline with a large photo. Next to it a small phone of the shooting in Sinai.
The BBC after all is a national corporation of a nation state. Local news, however minor they are, are more important. What happens in other countries, especially in places where the victims are not Westerners is of a less importance. Another legacy of what the nation state has made of us.
The same conclusion persists: Some lives are more precious than others.
Black Friday bonanza is also significantly important because it reflects "our way of life".
Black Friday bonanza and a shooting in Oxford Circus, London (Britain)
230 people shot dead in a mosque (in Sinai, Egypt)
The one on the shooting in Oxford Circus is the main headline with a large photo. Next to it a small phone of the shooting in Sinai.
The BBC after all is a national corporation of a nation state. Local news, however minor they are, are more important. What happens in other countries, especially in places where the victims are not Westerners is of a less importance. Another legacy of what the nation state has made of us.
The same conclusion persists: Some lives are more precious than others.
Black Friday bonanza is also significantly important because it reflects "our way of life".
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