> From: "Slate Magazine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> today's papers
> By Scott Shuger
>
> Thursday, Aug. 30, 2001, at 4:40 a.m. PT
> When the militaries of two nuclear powers, India and
> Pakistan, get in their third firefight in the last six days,
> with a single-day death toll of 21, where do the papers
> play it? Well, the only thing Today's Papers could find was
> the brief wire story the WP runs--on Page 24.
Scary thought, but it's not surprising that it doesn't get reported.
International events generally get short shrift in most American newspapers.
As a people, I don't think we're terribhly concerned with the goings on on
the other side of the globe until it blows up into something far too large
to ignore.
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