Bloody hell there are a lot of dickheads on this forum. The Western media in general doesn't give a **** about attacks in developing countries especially in a country which has a massive history of civil violence. Having said that, this is looking like yet another Islamist terror attack - but I'll wait till they confirm.
As for the dead, what can you say? May they all rest in peace.
There's a few notable exceptions as far as our media has been concerned. It's not all that long ago that an engineer from Perth was murdered in Colombo because he resisted the diversion of his temple's funds going to the LTTE, an attack which did not "go under the radar" in our media.
For instance»
Intriguing role for Australian 'auntie' as Tigers enter new phase
https://www.smh.com.au/world/intrig...s-tigers-enter-new-phase-20061223-gdp43u.html
Having said that, if you only read print media, one could argue that attacks in Kenya, Somalia, Balochstan, etc etc do not garner the same amount of print space nor make it to the front page as often, however to look at the twitter feeds of all international news organisations and journalists, one would get quite the opposite impression. Every terror attack, whether it's the 82 terror attacks across Africa in the last two weeks or yesterday's attacks in Sri Lanka do garner their attention. Maybe it's the medium of the newsroom, paper or airtime, that determine which stories go to print or goto air? However, I tend to be cynical and assume that it comes down to what sells advertising space, so instead of being informants of what is happening, the media tend to pick the stories that would sell their advertising space, based upon how salacious or local the stories are to their target audience. Personally, I post local stuff in bigfooty and international stuff in websleuths, only because bigfooty is hosted in Australia and Websleuths is hosted overseas, so it seems more appropriate.
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