Originally Posted By: Sethan
If that were true these starving people would be plastered all over the news everyday.


You are right, it is not in the US news cycle, you don't make money by making your viewers depressed. Scared, upset, angry and train wrecks - that makes money and that what they show.

Non-US news do report it, but you have to be reading non-US news to notice:

UK: http://www.bbc.co.uk/panorama/hi/front_page/newsid_9694000/9694094.stm
Canada: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/worl...article7551156/
Qatar: http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestoryus2012/2012/10/201210343152481862.html
Qatar: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/interactive/2011/09/2011915172736118705.html


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