Why is the U. S. use of the biggest conventional weapon in its arsenal in Afghanistan bigger news on the BBC site, Le Monde, Deutsche Welle, and RT.com (and Google News) than it is in the New York Times or the Washington Post? About six frontpage column inches are being devoted to the story on each of the international sites and only about one on each of the two domestic sites.
The only explanation I have for this, or the sudden admiration for Donald Trump because he utilized high-explosives, is our media elites are collectively insane.
Looks to me like BBC and Deutsche Welle front their sites with world news. Looks like RT.com has already moved on. The US papers have a more domestic focus.
US papers may concentrate on more in-depth reporting. Cable is faster, visual, and beating this story to death.
The Wall Street Journal also put its front-page story in about the same place in the leftmost column.
I checked it, too, since it’s clear the WP and NYT are not fans of Trump. The WSJ is less antagonistic.
I think we’re so inured to bombing these days it doesn’t matter if the ordnance is a 1000 lb or 20,000 lb so long as it’s not nuclear.
I don’t see why it should merit front page news. It is a bigger bomb, but it is still a bomb. It’s not like us bombing someone is a rare event.
Steve
It does play into the view of many of the paying customers of the foreign customers that Americans are trigger happy, no kill but overkill cowboys. As an aside, interesting articles in Al Jareeza about the disproportionate number of Maori imprisoned in NZ and Korea’s first black fashion model.