As rescently as February of this year, polls indicated that the Majority of the American public thought the genocide going on in Darfur should be at the top of the foreign policy agenda. A month later the number of people who think actions should be taken has not changed, however the number of people who have died in Darfur continues to climb at an alarming pace.
Darfur is not one of those issues that divide Americans. Christian Evangelicals who usually vote republican, have launched the “Evangelicals for Darfur.” Hollywood liberals like George Clooney have been themselves very active in calling attention to Darfur. Darfur is not a republican issue, it is not a democrat issue, it is a human issue. Over 400 thousand people in the low estimates have been killed and millions displaced. And yet the United Nations, the African Union and the United States seem not to be acting. Waiting while the number of dead keep rising.
Where is the media? IMHO the media has take a lot of the blame. While people are dying in this barbaric display of lack of humanity, the media is telling us that Anna Nichole’s body is flying to the Bahamas, and that the judge was crying during the dispute, and that some girl in American Idol possed topless. Where are the priorities of the media. Is the killing of thousands of people not worth the television time? Is it not sexy enough a story? Will the advertisers pull out?
It is sad to me that the media has become a laundry basket of yellow journalism. Where are the Edward R. Murrows, the Karl Grossmans, where are the Woodward and Bernsteins of this era? Where are the Margaret Bourke- Whites? Unfortunetly those people don’t sell anymore.
If you want to get involved please visit http://www.savedarfur.org/.
Darfur is not one of those issues that divide Americans. Christian Evangelicals who usually vote republican, have launched the “Evangelicals for Darfur.” Hollywood liberals like George Clooney have been themselves very active in calling attention to Darfur. Darfur is not a republican issue, it is not a democrat issue, it is a human issue. Over 400 thousand people in the low estimates have been killed and millions displaced. And yet the United Nations, the African Union and the United States seem not to be acting. Waiting while the number of dead keep rising.
Where is the media? IMHO the media has take a lot of the blame. While people are dying in this barbaric display of lack of humanity, the media is telling us that Anna Nichole’s body is flying to the Bahamas, and that the judge was crying during the dispute, and that some girl in American Idol possed topless. Where are the priorities of the media. Is the killing of thousands of people not worth the television time? Is it not sexy enough a story? Will the advertisers pull out?
It is sad to me that the media has become a laundry basket of yellow journalism. Where are the Edward R. Murrows, the Karl Grossmans, where are the Woodward and Bernsteins of this era? Where are the Margaret Bourke- Whites? Unfortunetly those people don’t sell anymore.
If you want to get involved please visit http://www.savedarfur.org/.
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