Coverage has been problematic in two key ways: It has suggested that some lives — U.S. lives, first world lives, white people’s lives — are worth more than others. It has also ignored all context and causal analysis of the increasing death toll and the slow spread of Ebola. By doing that, the media thereby reinforces the other generalized, racist myth, that problems in the continent of Africa are 1) general to the whole continent, rather than each country and region having its own dynamics and long history; 2) caused by the “victims” themselves, and not by other forces, such as imperialist legacy, an unequal economic system, policy pressure exerted by certain powerful first world countries, and so on.
Posted on: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 04:20:39 +0000
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