forgotten crisis: MSF, in 2008 only 6% OF THE NEWS OF ITALIAN TG
the news of the general public and private Italian TV is increasingly less space and attention devoted to humanitarian crises, including the situation in Zimbabwe, Sudan, Myanmar, Ethiopia. While in 2006 the news about the humanitarian crises were 10% of the total in 2008 fell to 6%. And 'the complaint contained in the Fifth Report of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) on the most serious humanitarian crisis and ignored by the media in 2008, presented today in Rome. The report contains an analysis of the 10 most forgotten humanitarian crises, with a study carried out in collaboration with the Centre of Pavia. The ten second crisis that MSF was in 2008 between "the most serious and ignored" are: the health crisis in Zimbabwe, the humanitarian catastrophe in Somalia, the health situation in Myanmar, in the grip of civil war in Eastern Congo ( DRC), child malnutrition, the critical situation in the Somali region of Ethiopia, the civilians killed or fleeing in northwestern Pakistan, violence and suffering in Sudan, and Iraqi civilians in need of assistance, HIV-TB co-infection. The most forgotten was HIV-TB co-infection, with only 5 services created by television, although one third of the 33 million people with HIV / AIDS is suffering from tuberculosis and is also among the leading causes of death. Among the crisis largely ignored by television, that Ethiopia, with only 6 news reports in a year, but also Sudan and Darfur, "a forgotten crisis remembered for," says the report, with only 53 reports a year. Little space is also given to Zimbabwe, DR Congo, the problem of malnutrition and Myanmar. Among the forgotten crises that they do have relatively more space in news: Iraq (412 services), Pakistan (185) and Somalia (178), although the news did not cover the humanitarian needs of the population but were more often related characters, events or situations that had some connection with Italy, the U.S. and the West in general. The report, in fact, a trend to "waves" of news about the crisis, with occasional peaks of interest (related to news or emergencies, such as the bombing in Mumbai in India, the cyclone Nargis in Myanmar, the kidnapping of volunteers or religious) and periods of complete silence and blackout. MSF, with the sponsorship of the National Italian Press Federation (FNSI) launched for the occasion, the campaign "Adopt a forgotten crisis" to ask for newspapers and magazines, radio and television broadcasts and newspapers on-line that they will talk about one or more of the forgotten crises during the next 12 months. The campaign has already signed several newspapers.
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on Zimbabwe:
the news of the general public and private Italian TV is increasingly less space and attention devoted to humanitarian crises, including the situation in Zimbabwe, Sudan, Myanmar, Ethiopia. While in 2006 the news about the humanitarian crises were 10% of the total in 2008 fell to 6%. And 'the complaint contained in the Fifth Report of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) on the most serious humanitarian crisis and ignored by the media in 2008, presented today in Rome. The report contains an analysis of the 10 most forgotten humanitarian crises, with a study carried out in collaboration with the Centre of Pavia. The ten second crisis that MSF was in 2008 between "the most serious and ignored" are: the health crisis in Zimbabwe, the humanitarian catastrophe in Somalia, the health situation in Myanmar, in the grip of civil war in Eastern Congo ( DRC), child malnutrition, the critical situation in the Somali region of Ethiopia, the civilians killed or fleeing in northwestern Pakistan, violence and suffering in Sudan, and Iraqi civilians in need of assistance, HIV-TB co-infection. The most forgotten was HIV-TB co-infection, with only 5 services created by television, although one third of the 33 million people with HIV / AIDS is suffering from tuberculosis and is also among the leading causes of death. Among the crisis largely ignored by television, that Ethiopia, with only 6 news reports in a year, but also Sudan and Darfur, "a forgotten crisis remembered for," says the report, with only 53 reports a year. Little space is also given to Zimbabwe, DR Congo, the problem of malnutrition and Myanmar. Among the forgotten crises that they do have relatively more space in news: Iraq (412 services), Pakistan (185) and Somalia (178), although the news did not cover the humanitarian needs of the population but were more often related characters, events or situations that had some connection with Italy, the U.S. and the West in general. The report, in fact, a trend to "waves" of news about the crisis, with occasional peaks of interest (related to news or emergencies, such as the bombing in Mumbai in India, the cyclone Nargis in Myanmar, the kidnapping of volunteers or religious) and periods of complete silence and blackout. MSF, with the sponsorship of the National Italian Press Federation (FNSI) launched for the occasion, the campaign "Adopt a forgotten crisis" to ask for newspapers and magazines, radio and television broadcasts and newspapers on-line that they will talk about one or more of the forgotten crises during the next 12 months. The campaign has already signed several newspapers.
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on Zimbabwe:
... I would be curious to know what percentage of movies on Big Brother, the right diet to get the costume, the wedding of a VIP football ...
possible that we were interested in more all these frivolities rather than the world around us??
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