Today in France, front pages look back on Charlie Hebdo.
(Source: frontpageoftheday)
Reblogged from Poynter
When gunmen murdered 17 people in Paris earlier this month, it seized the world’s attention. When Boko Haram militants killed hundreds in and around the Nigerian town of Baga the same week, the mass killing scarcely garnered a mention in the Western media.
The contrast between the spotlight in Paris and the blackout in Nigeria resulted in a barrage of criticism charging the international media with a lopsided focus. Those killed in Nigeria, like those killed in Paris, were victims of gunmen espousing an extreme version of Islamism. Those deaths, critics argued, also deserved attention.
The discussion about why the killings in Nigeria were ignored underscored an old problem: News from sub-Saharan Africa is underreported. Whatever the ultimate explanation for the coverage gap, the discussion of the lack of Baga killings coverage offers an opportunity to pivot resources toward Africa, starting with Nigeria.
A panel from I Still Can’t Believe It, by James Van Otto. This is one of seven comic essays that respond to Charlie Hebdo collected by the Nib.
There’s no backing down. There’s only moving forward, doing our jobs, making your voices heard.
One tweet sums up the big problem with how we talk about terrorism
If a terrorist attack took place right here in the U.S., why isn’t it a national story?
Terrorism may be defined as “the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes,” but if you asked most people, the term conjures one image: brown people with beards and bombs. Nothing has made that profoundly racist misunderstanding clearer than the news coverage of two violent attacks that happened within roughly 24 hours.
Reblogged from braiker
According to Reporters Without Borders, the magazine had been under police protection ever since it published a cartoon depicting the Prophet Mohammed back in 2011.
Reblogged from The FJP
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