Genocide is News
If you do nothing else today, watch this 60-second video from the Be A Witness campaign on the Sudan genocide. This sums up in 60 seconds what one of the biggest problems in the world is - that no one is paying attention to Sudan. Instead we're being fed news coverage of such worldly items like the runaway bride, Jude Law's adultery, or most sickening, 'Roseanne' cast reunited at bowling alley. (I am so ashamed of the Associated Press for that story.)
As the campaign states: "Genocide is the ultimate crime against humanity. And a government-backed genocide is unfolding in the Darfur region of the Sudan. As the horror in Darfur continues, our major television news networks are largely missing in action."
At www.beawitness.org you can send a letter to executives at all major news networks asking them essentially this: "If genocide is happening right before our eyes, why won't you cover it?"
If nothing else, increased news coverage of this event may help spur into action the steps required to end the unbelievable madness and slaughter happening in Sudan right now.
As the campaign states: "Genocide is the ultimate crime against humanity. And a government-backed genocide is unfolding in the Darfur region of the Sudan. As the horror in Darfur continues, our major television news networks are largely missing in action."
At www.beawitness.org you can send a letter to executives at all major news networks asking them essentially this: "If genocide is happening right before our eyes, why won't you cover it?"
If nothing else, increased news coverage of this event may help spur into action the steps required to end the unbelievable madness and slaughter happening in Sudan right now.
posted by MikeJ at
11:40 AM
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