05-07-2013, 11:27 PM
Steve G. wrote:
I notice that nobody here got worked up when thousands of kids were kidnapped and pressed into killing people as "child soldiers" in Africa.
Why would people in America care about that? We're so far removed and so insulated from that kind of misery, plus there's no money to be made. Let's face it, Africans suffering is not "news" and won't garner the interest of America. Hell, they had genocide in Rwanda and no one cared.
Steve G. wrote:
You are being had. They are exploiting other people's misery to gain listeners and viewers.
And is that some kind of wakeup call to America? That the "news" uses people's misery to gain listeners and viewers to bolster their ratings numbers and increase advertising revenue?