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Boston bombs

Posted inEquality, News/Politics

Boston, media bias and problem with quantifying life and death

Simon Howell by Simon Howell 19 April 201326 April 2013

Invariably when a tragedy such as the Boston bombing occurs in the US, UK or any other “western” nation, the bloodshed is compared, quantitatively, with the violence in Iraq, Syria, or any other nation that is not in the “west”. Within minutes of the detonation of the bombs in Boston, my Facebook feed was producing […]

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