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Mali Plane Crash
Mutter
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Has it become news because a European died rather than black people, or is a terrorist pattern emerging?
I hated how is was ignored, but now since one European dead, the press takes notice.
I hated how is was ignored, but now since one European dead, the press takes notice.
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It wasn't ignored, it was on the BBC and Sky news when it disappeared. Until they found the crash site there wasn't a lot to say. We even had a thread about it. It's still on the BBC website front page.
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1989515
There's been another plane crash in Mali?
I certainly haven't seen reports about any plane other than Air Algerie AH5017.
Does anyone have a link?
I thought that one had a passenger list including 27 people from Burkina Faso, 51 French, eight Lebanese, six Algerians, two from Luxembourg, five Canadians, four Germans, one Cameroonian, one Belgian, one Egyptian, one Ukrainian, one Swiss, one Nigerian and one Malian, plus six Spanish crew.
The OP is talking about a crash involving one European.
That's the one. The OP suggests not one word of the crash was reported until a white person was reported dead.
Load of shit but I think the OP may have an agenda.
From the same report. Remember the OP suggests that the crash wasn't reported at all. Bollocks of course.
On Friday, the UK Foreign Office said a British man was also among the dead. He has yet to be identified.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-28479681
Ah, right!
So it wasn't "ignored", it hasn't just "become news", and there wasn't just "one European"!
Apart from that .... !!!
The faux-outrage, over nothing I hasten to add, is beginning to seep through your post.
Loads of europeans died. Where do you get the one from
51 French, two from Luxembourg, four Germans, one Belgian,, one Swiss, plus six Spanish crew.
That makes 65
Spot on. I wonder if the OP will ask for this thread to be deleted?
You mean the one Brit that died but not the other 65
The casualties and their nationalities were released yesterday. It's even on bloody Buzzfeed!
The reason MH17 is bigger news is due to it being shot down over a pure accident and it's exasperated the issues in the Ukraine/Russia war with the world's leaders watching and discussing sanctions on Russia.
Eh?
The very first mention I saw of this (ie- yesterday, when it was first confirmed missing) we knew that there were at least 50 French (ergo, European) people aboard.
Is the same school of thought that insists on bringing up "BUT WHAT ABOUT THE IRANIAN AIRLINES FLIGHT THAT WAS SHOT DOWN?!?!?!" every time someone expresses sympathy about MH17, or are you just seeing Africa and assuming "black"?
As others have said, it was reported as soon as it was known something had happened to it. The news couldn't report much more until they knew it had actually crashed, and until some footage had been released. Now it has it's one of the top news stories. But as Odd Socks said, it may not be quite as high up the news list simply because this one looks like an accident rather than being shot out of the sky.
Beginning when this was first reported and with 6 pages of comments until 14.44 yesterday!
I wonder what passes for "getting attention" nowadays?:D