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0 pointssimiones3y ago0 comments

The degree is usually different, but it is sometimes spectacular how much media collaborates to hide news.

Look for any coverage in the US press about the gigantic strikes that workers in India organized in November 2020, possibly involving 250 million workers [0]: there isn't even 1 single article written by any mainstream media in the US (and much of Europe).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Indian_general_strike

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tablespoon3y ago· 1 in thread

> The degree is usually different, but it is sometimes spectacular how much media collaborates to hide news.

Hiding implies a deliberate act to obscure, but you're example is most likely nothing of the kind.

> Look for any coverage in the US press about the gigantic strikes that workers in India organized in November 2020, possibly involving 250 million workers [0]: there isn't even 1 single article written by any mainstream media in the US (and much of Europe).

Are you talking about this?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/world/asia/india-farmers-...

Also there was a US presidential election in November 2020, which is the kind of thing that drowns out pretty much every other kind of news story. The fact is that unless an international story has some kind of domestic angle (which includes geopolitics), it probably won't get much attention, because most people just don't care.

simionesOP3y ago

> Hiding implies a deliberate act to obscure, but you're example is most likely nothing of the kind.

That is exactly what I meant to imply.

> Are you talking about this?

> https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/world/asia/india-farmers-...

No, I am talking about the strikes I linked to, that happened one month before and are not even mentioned in this article; and which involved many many times more people (even if you don't believe the 250 million people claimed by the unions) and all industries in several Indian states.

> Also there was a US presidential election in November 2020, which is the kind of thing that drowns out pretty much every other kind of news story. The fact is that unless an international story has some kind of domestic angle (which includes geopolitics), it probably won't get much attention, because most people just don't care.

There are many international news agencies that report on, well, international news. Not even one of them reported these strikes, in November 2020 or ever since. I wasn't expecting this to be covered on Tucker Carlson or Rachel Maddow's shows - obviously. But it is impossible that not a single international and economic news organization in the USA (and much of Europe, if I remember correctly) thought it worth reporting that for a few days entire Indian states were shut down.

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