President Erdoğan may have a penchant (a tendency, partiality, or preference) for locking up reporters,but Turkey’s sufferings – and many bomb deaths – are part of the wider Brussels and Paris storyBrussels, in its miserable way, or was part of an emerging media routine. obtain your TV news anchors there on the shattered streets. Sweep other stories aside for the duration. (I particularly like the C4 reporter who told Matt Frei,just a few kilometres absent, that nothing much was happening in Molenbeek except for rather a lot of policemen and journalists walking up and down.)Naturally, and in this atrocity round,there were EU referendum links, and naturally all the normal suspects made them – which meant that the “equivalence” argument from the Paris attacks had to approach into question. What was the point of pretending that dozens dead in a French or Belgian capital wasn’t more a story than a similar onslaught in Beirut? Emotion and experience choose that issue.
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Source: theguardian.com