Why is Nigeria getting no news coverage?

[Multiply]

2,000+ people were murdered and yet there's till barely any news coverage over it. 13 people die in Paris and they're on every major news channel in the US. I hate to be the guy that pulls the race card but... Come on dog... These Africans are getting slaughtered over there and we can't even give them news coverage? Like really?

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To many, the lack of Washington's strive to aid the people of Nigeria – the biggest African economy – seems to follow simple geostrategic logic: no oil, no security support. While diverting funds to fight the Islamic State in Iraq, the US seems unwilling to address Boko Haram insurgents in Nigeria.

What the hell is going on dude...?

Also I'm not going to lump Africans in with what we 'Americans' call 'blacks' because they culturally are not the same as us.We may share a similar skin color but our culture is 100% different.

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When CNN did cover this shit, look what they have to say.

[video=youtube;XBCYN6ijgEI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBCYN6ijgEI[/video]

I understand that he's saying our government thinks they aren't priority but damn dogs. You had to go ahead and say these Black Africans ain't shit, but we're gonna protect the White Africans in the same continent...? Essentially saying the White African lives are priority while the Black Africans aren't worth the trouble of saving. What...?

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They really want this race war to pop off. These fools are tripping...

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[Osmon]

I'm saddened to live in this world .

 

[BGHKReincarnate]

I didn't even hear about it, damn, the media is so skewed.

 

[Soloist]

I feel u man countries like France have 2 people shoot up a magazine store and they get support from all over the world but we Nigerians have mercenaries committing mass murder and we get no help apart from the US

 

[Arian]

Well the big difference is that by now its "normal" to have these kind of news from all over africa... that continent has been on war ever since its discovery... but to have a terrorrist act in the heart of europe is something both terrifying and new.

im not saying its good this way. But most people just dont give a shit about the people in 3rd world country...especially when there is stuff going on in europe....

 

[DoubleKamui]

The media is often biased, corrupted and racist. Stay away from it, kiddos.

 

[Apêx1]

Not even surprised doe.

 

[GhostProject]

The wheels must be greased with money . If there's no agenda/objective behind a major story, then there's no point in them wanting to show it. The only exception is if it is popular and trendy to the point that the people can't get enough "updates," only then will they stoke the flames.

If there's no opportunity for profit of any kind, chances are nobody has an interest in showing it vs some other story. It's a harsh truth.

 

[Avani]

Any other insight on the issue aside from about the comments at the "news coverage" ? Any discussion you have in mind - about how and why this situation was created and why locals are unable to handle it themselves? Does any one know what's the point of conflict? What's the ideology of Boko Haram ? What do they even want? We are just going to rant lack of news and if the coverage is there, would it be alright with just that?

Would people even feel comfortable enough to discuss this news, besides complaining about biased media trying to frame others.. and how USA is responsible for all the world troubles, in general, anyway?

Why are you trying to make it a racist issue somehow? The article you linked talks about " No Oil No protection". Everyone know US loves oil. U_U

 

[Made in Heaven]

Because they're not white .

 

[SSU]

This is the world the we live in. Money and power over anything else. We really want to believe that times have changed, and that we have become a better world. In reality we have not.

 

[Jɑégar]

Any other insight on the issue aside from about the comments at the "news coverage" ? Any discussion you have in mind - about how and why this situation was created and why locals are unable to handle it themselves? Does any one know what's the point of conflict? What's the ideology of Boko Haram ? What do they even want? We are just going to rant lack of news and if the coverage is there, would it be alright with just that?

Would people even feel comfortable enough to discuss this news, besides complaining about biased media trying to frame others.. and how USA is responsible for all the world troubles, in general, anyway?

Why are you trying to make it a racist issue somehow? The article you linked talks about " No Oil No protection". Everyone know US loves oil. U_U

How would people know if the media didn't even mention it once? How should people research about them when they don't know that they even exist? They don't even know who they are and what they're doing. (I personally know about them, but I was generalizing).

 

[Conspirator.]

The media is always biased. It's the nature of being a journalist. It's like asking for politicians and lawyers to not be "biased". It's not going to happen, since that's the nature of the job. Also, this may sound incredibly selfish by the media, but people have grown accustomed to hearing about horrific events coming out of 3rd world countries. People are obviously going to be even more concerned, if similar events were to start leaking into Western Countries, which are supposedly "safer". It's probably why the Paris incident was given more attention, even though the Nigeria incident was far worse.

 

[Wabbit]

Because Nigeria lacks influence and relevance in the world,being oil exporter or anything. For example what happened in France got more coverage because France is powerful and has allies,can make it a big issue. It is seen as attack on western world but Nigerians dying....nobodies problem other than Nigerians. That is how the world is.

 

[Olorin]

For the same reason that you would care more about one of your family dying than 50 people dying in a hospital 500 miles away

The Us and EU care more about what happens in Paris because we're much closer to that part of the world (not only geographically), some of us were even born in France so naturally a news agency originating in the west will cover that kind of news more, just like a news agency from China will report news more relevant to them

 

[Anorien16]

If the Westerners gave too much attention and sent their Millitary squads .... then wont you guys be the one's who would be claiming that USA is being heavy handed while spreading freedom?

Honestly .... they are not much concerned with Africa yet because there are other priorities based on their self interest. You might not realise it yet .... but every country is mostly selfish. (Boko Haram is a distant problem from westerners ... thus they are not so interested)

 

[Zlatán]

I'm pretty used to the media being corrupted and biased

 

[DocThao]

b/c this is something so common it no longer becomes news, just another sad reality of Africa

u really think this is the first time a massacre has occurred in Africa in recent history

 

[~WastelandSociety~]

Because Nigeria lacks influence and relevance in the world,being oil exporter or anything. For example what happened in France got more coverage because France is powerful and has allies,can make it a big issue. It is seen as attack on western world but Nigerians dying....nobodies problem other than Nigerians. That is how the world is.

What are you talking about....Nigeria and the United States are close allies.
They rely on the USA on trades and other things which their strength of being partners grew after the death of General Abacha in 1998.
Even the government helped the U.S. with counter-terrorism.

The U.S helped Nigeria with public health,etc and Nigeria was the economic powerhouse of the African continent and that the Nation has the richest black man and woman as stated by Forbes magazine.

Now the problem I've seen is that the government stoped the U.S.A from helping when the offered.
"We regret premature termination of this training, as it was to be the first in a larger planned project that would have trained additional units with the goal of helping the Nigerian Army build capacity to counter Boko Haram," State Department spokesman Rodney Ford said in an email to the Military Times in December.

"The US government will continue other aspects of the extensive bilateral security relationship, as well as all other assistance programs, with Nigeria," he said. "The US government is committed to the long tradition of partnership with Nigeria and will continue to engage future requests for cooperation and training."


And as someone stated in the comment in the link:

Highly hypocritical from Russia TV, I wonder why the Russians are not helping instead being the superpower they claim to be. They seem to forget Nigeria is a sovereign country, in other words, the US cannot send in the Marines when the country in question has not expressed such a demand. The US has done more for the African continent than any of the other world powers. The US remains the only light in a dark world and hope for freedom anywhere.

Don't blame other countries for Nigeria's lack of action on Boko Harem. BH has been around for 6 years now .They have been getting bolder due to Nigeria's ignoring the situation . Nigeria supposedly has the 5th largest army in Africa. Even neighboring countries who are now banding together to take on BH are suspect of Nigeria's lack of action. Seems the current governments big priority is the election right now and not the countries security. The Nigerian military is poorly paid ,must even buy their own uniforms ,so they do not match .How can a Nigerian soldier identify friend or foe when the uniforms don't match. The Nigerian military is out gunned by BH .How is this possible for a country that has huge oil wealth? Let's face it the Nigerian government is afraid to equip its own troops . History has something to do with this. Yet the countries leader's and elite keep getting wealthy.

 

[Multiply]

Any other insight on the issue aside from about the comments at the "news coverage" ? Any discussion you have in mind - about how and why this situation was created and why locals are unable to handle it themselves? Does any one know what's the point of conflict? What's the ideology of Boko Haram ? What do they even want? We are just going to rant lack of news and if the coverage is there, would it be alright with just that?

Would people even feel comfortable enough to discuss this news, besides complaining about biased media trying to frame others.. and how USA is responsible for all the world troubles, in general, anyway?

Why are you trying to make it a racist issue somehow? The article you linked talks about " No Oil No protection". Everyone know US loves oil. U_U

Lol what? Did you watch the video? The analyst clearly says that if Boko Haram was attacking the white people in Africa, we would see it being stopped. However, since it is not them and it is only the black Africans, they are not priority. If that is not about race then I really don't know what would be.

Also, I'm only saying this in terms of, people don't know about this. If people don't know about it they can't figure out all of the things you just said. How would they know about it? Through news coverage!

Why is the US responsible for all of the world's troubles in general? I genuinely don't believe this is about oil at all. The US hardly gets any oil from the middle east, look it up. The amount we get from there is so insignificant to the amounts we get from other places like Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, and Russia. By their logic we should be in Venezuela trying to stop their riots. Yet here we stand. Don't tell me you believe in the hype.

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