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Re:Ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine by jimmy1 on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @08:44AM (#16628015)
No but in the grand scheme of things, things like the Yemen Civil War that has been ongoing since 2015 has gotten less attention in our media than a single Donald Trump tweet.

For lack of a better word: sad!

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Re:Ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine by Angostura on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @08:56AM (#16628109)
It would be sad if you were correct, but you're not https://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=yemen+civil+war
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Re:Ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine by majewsky on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @09:48AM (#16628487)
The plain number of articles on a topic is not a useful measure for their impact. A dozen newsticker reports will be remembered less than a single frontpage article.
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Re:Ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine by jimmy1 on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @09:28AM (#16628327)
I would be optimistic if most Americans actually read the BBC ( or read, for that matter). I would venture to say most however, do not. For example, a popular right wing propaganda news source that most Americans watch has had a handful of articles this year, and skimpy coverage on air.
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Re:Ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine by purple-again on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @10:10AM (#16628666)
Do you find it hard to believe that an organization based in the UK, and citizens of that union, are more interested in whats going in Yemen than an organization based in the US, and of course the citizens of that union.

I know whats happening in Yemen, I've read the facts, and now I don't care anymore. I don't want to see it in the news everyday because it wasn't relevant to me when I read about it and it has practically zero chance of every being relevant to me.

What Trump said about xxx person at yyy place is varying degrees of relevant to my life, all of those degrees more so than Yemen.

If Fox had a large Middle Eastern demographic that it's advertisers cared about, you would see Yemen Nightly at 7:30 without question.

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Re:Ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine by jimmy1 on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @10:45AM (#16628997)
> Do you find it hard to believe that an organization based in the UK, and citizens of that union, are more interested in whats going in Yemen than an organization based in the US, and of course the citizens of that union.

Yes, because on the other side of that conflict is the Saudis, who are one of our biggest "allys", and of course, the other side of the coin is the general hypocrisy of caring what goes on in other parts of the world and not this one because it doesn't fit a specific narrative.

> What Trump said about xxx person at yyy place is varying degrees of relevant to my life, all of those degrees more so than Yemen.

I don't know how to not say this in a disrespectful way, but I really feel sad for you on a personal level if that's truly what you think. I have a feeling that you are just attempting to be a contrarian in this instance.

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Re:Ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine by ifm on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @02:06PM (#16631000)
There is a concept called "News Values" which explains this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_values

Anything Donald Trump says is more relevant to the west than Yemen.

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