The London Evening Standard’s “Brief” Report.

 

The London Evening Standard’s “Brief” Report.

(A Short Piece)

by

Bankole Christopher Smart-cole (BSc)

Developed: 28 January 2015/ Researched Online: January 2015

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Edition: Tuesday 27 January, 2015. “Hostages Taken In Terror Attack On Libya Hotel”

That’s just it. How can something with so much significance (the topic of the loss of human life or a terror attack) mean so little to the newspaper in question, that it got slapped as the “World In Brief”, just because the headline per se (via its geographical position) didn’t carry the weight of opulence to the paper?

Why should we have a headline with so much importance thrown into a section of the paper tagged as the “World In Brief”, when we have other positive/ negative antics like Sportainment taking over other pages? I ask, where’s the paper’s humanitarian compass towards news reporting? So, because a Brit wasn’t killed in the attack, that’s why thereof didn’t make anything close to the cover page, right.  

I, personally admit, that ranting on and on about the current state of primary poverty in the Global South is becoming relentlessly tedious; especially even in an ever more enlightened era, but that doesn’t justify a civil society personnel (the media, and in this case, the London Evening outfit), to act in ways which delineate it has a paper solely caring for its own/ the country’s own national needs.