Horrors in Yemen and Nigeria Clouded by the Media's Paris Coverage

To the Point

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4.4 • 583 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2015

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Al Qaeda in Yemen now claims it ordered the attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris. Should the western media be paying more attention to atrocities in that country — and to Nigeria, where civilians are being slaughtered by the thousands?

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0:35.7	Terrorism, global and local.
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0:47.9	The massacre of 17 people at Charlie Hebdo wasn't Wednesday's only terror attack, and it wasn't the deadliest either.
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1:00.4	a terrorist bomb killed 20 in the capital city of Yemen. The day before that, a 10-year-old girl blew up herself and 19 others in northern Nigeria, and that's where 2,000 civilians were
1:06.1	slaughtered, just three days before. But we haven't heard much. Nobody's apologizing for saturation news coverage of what
1:12.5	happened in Paris, but are the Western media missing the big picture? Today's talking point,
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