tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4401197942016431104.post1836339789684928172..comments2024-02-25T17:51:17.085+00:00Comments on of-course: And here’s the newsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4401197942016431104.post-55919039126217220732012-06-08T16:50:06.776+01:002012-06-08T16:50:06.776+01:00It is wrong, Paul. It's very wrong. Sadly, i...It is wrong, Paul. It's very wrong. Sadly, it's also an international phenomenon; part of the dark shadow of nationalism.<br /><br />Yet media outfits pull this all the time, particularly the larger ones such as BBC, ABC, MSNBC, Fox News(particularly bad about it, among many other things), and Russia Today.<br /><br />This doesn't only apply to current events, either. The Holocaust, having claimed the lives of around 8 million, has always recieved far more attention than Stalin's Purges (which killed approximatly 20 million), Mao's Cultural Revolution and Great Leap Forward (around 12 million killed total), the reign of the Khymer Rouge (estimated at 2 to 5 million Cambodians killed), the 1994 genocide in Rwanda (over 1 million killed in about 1 month), and the 60-year-old conflict in Sudan (with around 2 million lives taken thus far).<br /><br />But to the average citizenry of the world, these events are little more than vauge statistics buried in history. It makes me gradually sicker and sicker to my stomach the more thought I put to it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com