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[TMLutas]

In Turkey, the moderate Islamist party is in trouble, about to be kicked out by secularists why isn't the West paying attention? Is this a trend in media coverage that is throwing off our analysis and making us thing we're more alone than we actually are?

[LoneWolf23k]

In Turkey, the moderate Islamist party is in trouble, about to be kicked out by secularists why isn't the West paying attention? Is this a trend in media coverage that is throwing off our analysis and making us thing we're more alone than we actually are?

Sadly, I'm afraid that these days, Iran's hogging the spotlight, what with it's race to acquire Nuclear power, it's persistant defiance of the West, and it's bigoted attitude towards non-muslims.

[TMLutas]

In Turkey, the moderate Islamist party is in trouble, about to be kicked out by secularists why isn't the West paying attention? Is this a trend in media coverage that is throwing off our analysis and making us thing we're more alone than we actually are?

Sadly, I'm afraid that these days, Iran's hogging the spotlight, what with it's race to acquire Nuclear power, it's persistant defiance of the West, and it's bigoted attitude towards non-muslims.

Really, what's more important in a particular news cycle this week, pounding the table on Iran which is not going nuclear in 2006 or mass demonstrations and utter rejection of islamic politics by Turkey, new elections, and ministers fearing for their lives because of the wrath of the muslim secularists.

The normal excuse is that blood trumps everything but that's not what's happening here. There's the assassinated judge, the attacks on ministers (very unusual for Turkey, lately) the calls for early elections, the government on the brink of collapse. This is all urgent stuff and should be pushing Iran to the back burner but it's not. Is it because ultimately it's good news for our side? Why is the media not following its normal script?

[LoneWolf23k]

Is it because ultimately it's good news for our side? Why is the media not following its normal script?

I think that's it right there: It's good news for us. And Good News is No News.

Edit: Same with how apparantly nobody's talking about how the hole in the Ozone layer has started closing up even though Kyoto hasn't been applied world-wide yet.

[Reignbow]

Edit: Same with how apparantly nobody's talking about how the hole in the Ozone layer has started closing up even though Kyoto hasn't been applied world-wide yet.

You are getting two different things mixed up here. The Kyoto protocol regulates emission of greenhouse gases and is aimed at avoiding possible temperature increase. The ozone layer is interesting mostly because it prevents hard UV light from reaching the surface. The ozone hole was mostly blamed on chlorofluorocarbons that were regulated in the Montreal protocol. That doesn't change your point that the decreasing ozone hole gets virtually zero press coverage, most likely because it's "only" good news.

[EdBecerra]

The guiding creedo of every newspaper editor:

"If it bleeds, it leads."

[TMLutas]

The guiding creedo of every newspaper editor:

"If it bleeds, it leads."

Here's the problem. It's bleeding, but it's not leading. Government ministers having to run for their lives, covered by cordons of security troops is a tremendously juicy story, but not when it's islamist ministers in Turkey running from secularist muslim mobs.