How does it feel to be forgotten?
During the past few weeks, we've had lots of emails and text messages like this one:
"My daughter phoned me yesterday to tell me not to worry about what hapened in Afghanistan on Tuesday night as she was alright but she was very shaken (she's in Kabul at camp souter in the army). I didn't know what she was talking about and it's got us all worried as there's nothing in the news and she's been told not to talk about it. Why is this?" -Dougie, London
The roll call of conflicts overlooked by the world's media is a long one: Darfur, Afghanistan, Nepal, Iraq, Sri Lanka, Gaza... to name just a few. The stories of , and in Afghanistan surprised me, I haven't heard much from there for months. In Darfur, could soon starve because . And Gaza too, has seen , despite the UN resolution in Lebanon. You're the editor-- who do you want to hear from? What stories is the media missing? Tell us below.
The team's hitting the telephones now, looking for people in Gaza, Afghanistan and Darfur, to tell us what's happening there now. We're also hoping to get someone to explain how big media decides which stories to cover and how much money it throws at headline news.
If half a million people are starving in Darfur, why don't we have headlines in our papers everyday? Why isn't television news there with live reports on the hour? Are the hundreds of journalists reporting from Lebanon on the human misery there too busy to go down to Gaza and explain what's happening ? Are there problems in reporting these conflicts we don't know about? As I write this, Peter's chasing down veteran correspondents, wherever they might be, to explain how it works behind the scenes (think he's tracked one down on holiday in Cyprus!)
Most important, though, how do you think we've covered these conflicts? Are there other stories we're not giving enough attention to? Let us know!
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