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Vanity: Why Is Drudge NOT Covering Kenya Slaughter?
9/22/2013

Posted on 09/22/2013 9:03:59 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache

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To: Innovative

He or his crew was quick to post about the Christian killings this morning at the church by the terrorists and he has been sprinkling stories about how long Earth is going to last etc...but not one single story on this huge story. I just am lost about this one.


21 posted on 09/22/2013 9:20:26 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache (In a world where I feel so small, I can't stop thinking big.)
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To: My Favorite Headache

I don’t know BBC world news and Al Jazeera America been cover it more

I been watch those news network more too


22 posted on 09/22/2013 9:20:44 AM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: My Favorite Headache

Maybe for the same reason Americans yawn about various African genocidal slaughters.
The soft bigotry of low expectations.


23 posted on 09/22/2013 9:21:30 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: jimbo123

So what does Drudge do?


24 posted on 09/22/2013 9:22:30 AM PDT by Exit148
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To: My Favorite Headache

Obviously a conspiracy.


25 posted on 09/22/2013 9:23:45 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (It's hard to accept the truth when the lies were exactly what you wanted to hear.)
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To: Blackirish
Probably because the headline didn’t get many hits. Black on Black crime whether in Chicago or Nairobi isn’t news any more. Same for Muslim vs Muslim bombings....

You nailed it. If Natalee Holloway was in that mall it would be all over cable news.

26 posted on 09/22/2013 9:25:10 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: My Favorite Headache

Yeah, I’m just perplexed by the silence of Drudge on the Kenya mall shooting. During my work day, I usually try to check Drudge on my phone once or twice just to keep myself apprised of anything interesting or breaking news. Imagine my surprise when the day ended and I had time to check other sources, and there was this HUGE story about mass killings, including dead Americans, that Drudge ignored.

Days later, and he’s still ignoring the story. At this point it goes beyond “we didn’t think it was newsworthy” to being downright suspicious, as if there’s some reason he doesn’t WANT it to be covered more prominently.

I don’t buy the idea that he’s not putting up links to it because it’s being well covered everywhere else. Since when has that ever stopped Drudge (or Curl) from linking to big breaking news stories?

The fact that it *did* show up at the very outset (I missed it, but saw it in the archive) and was quickly removed is telling. Normally a Drudge headline gets bumped down when something bigger comes along, but that original link is still there on the right column for a couple days. And especially with breaking stories, there are updates to the original story, and links to other news sources with different angles, etc.

This is the kind of story I would have expected to be on Drudge, and it’s not. That’s VERY weird. I’ve lost a lot of trust and respect for Drudge based on this experience.


27 posted on 09/22/2013 9:28:41 AM PDT by MPB
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To: My Favorite Headache

Also some coverage on Israeli TV (in English)

http://www.i24news.tv/en/tv/live


28 posted on 09/22/2013 9:33:35 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: SevenofNine

http://www.i24news.tv/en/tv/live

Israeli TV

http://wwitv.com/tv_channels/b6519-NTV-Kenya.htm

Kenya TV with coverage


29 posted on 09/22/2013 9:34:36 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: GeronL
When he wakes up he might

Then there's that. :-)

30 posted on 09/22/2013 9:43:04 AM PDT by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: My Favorite Headache

You must be trying really hard not to see because I’ve been getting tweets from him about it since it started.


31 posted on 09/22/2013 9:45:32 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Obama: What did I not know and when did I not know it?)
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To: Blackirish

No, he did not have it as a headline all day yesterday; he had that big storm near Asia as his headline all day.


32 posted on 09/22/2013 9:45:33 AM PDT by BeadCounter (Really? Syria?)
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To: GeronL

He’s always been tabloidish...if it is negative, then it’s up. So I am surprised...


33 posted on 09/22/2013 9:45:35 AM PDT by fabian (" And a new day will dawn for those who stand long, and the forests will echo in laughter")
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To: My Favorite Headache

Anything with “Kenya” in it is filtered as possible birther stuff, and this of course is verboten on Drudge, as in virtually all other media in the USA.


34 posted on 09/22/2013 9:46:08 AM PDT by omniscient
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To: GeronL

Speaking of Israel 24 they may be cover to the US very soon they are in talk to with Verzion FIOS and others to carry their news channel

Probably in 2014 maybe in mid part of 2014

I do watch Israel 24 on live stream sometime


35 posted on 09/22/2013 9:47:29 AM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: Exit148
So what does Drudge do?

Rakes in the cash and watches NFL football.
36 posted on 09/22/2013 9:49:53 AM PDT by jimbo123
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To: SevenofNine

That would be better than watching CCTV4 out of commie China


37 posted on 09/22/2013 9:49:58 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: My Favorite Headache
I remembered seeing links yesterday as I went around online, especially because the site linked to a Daily Mail page that was also the subject of a thread here.

If this archive is correct, my memory was correct (look in the right-hand column), but I wonder if the Kenya story was ever especially prominent there. It's not there now.

38 posted on 09/22/2013 9:50:31 AM PDT by Lonely Bull
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To: Exit148

“So what does Drudge do?”

He does very little on weekends.


39 posted on 09/22/2013 9:50:55 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Blackirish

the only headline I saw there all day yesterday was about the typhoon hitting China


40 posted on 09/22/2013 9:52:00 AM PDT by digger48
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