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February 12th 2007 03:24
So many headlines make the nightly news. For a while we see them everyday until, quite frankly, we can't stand listening to the bad news anymore. The media knows this and stops covering these stories. Important events drop off the agenda and the general public forgets about important issues. Some assume the problems go away. To often, however, the opposite occurs.
Let's face it, media moguls help create our world. They decide what we watch and what we think about. Too often headline news moves to the back of the line after a while and important information which gets forgotten and ignored. Let's follow up on the news and find out what's happening now.
Sudan finally made some good news last December when its president finally gave in to UN pressure to allow UN peacekeeping troops into Darfur to help create some semblance of peace, and to bolster up the African Union troops already there. What's happened since?
The UN is yet to send peacekeepers into Darfur as President Al Bashir has yet to agree to the terms of the UN presense. Meanwhile the situation in Darfur is still dire, with fighting and bloodshed continuing. Yet most of the public is unaware of this, as it's not headline news.
This blog will focus on bringing back the news that the mainstream world has forgotten. It's taken a long time for global warming to make the headline news that we've seen in recent times. Thanks to the persistence of scientists and moves by grassroots organisations to bring this interest to the forefront. Let's do the same for the rest of the worlds' forgotten!
Let's face it, media moguls help create our world. They decide what we watch and what we think about. Too often headline news moves to the back of the line after a while and important information which gets forgotten and ignored. Let's follow up on the news and find out what's happening now.
Sudan finally made some good news last December when its president finally gave in to UN pressure to allow UN peacekeeping troops into Darfur to help create some semblance of peace, and to bolster up the African Union troops already there. What's happened since?
The UN is yet to send peacekeepers into Darfur as President Al Bashir has yet to agree to the terms of the UN presense. Meanwhile the situation in Darfur is still dire, with fighting and bloodshed continuing. Yet most of the public is unaware of this, as it's not headline news.
This blog will focus on bringing back the news that the mainstream world has forgotten. It's taken a long time for global warming to make the headline news that we've seen in recent times. Thanks to the persistence of scientists and moves by grassroots organisations to bring this interest to the forefront. Let's do the same for the rest of the worlds' forgotten!
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