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Why does this receive so little coverage in Australia?

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My apologies in advance, stevenlmeyer, for appearing to further the diversion of the topic into matters Israeli. That my example happened to be such was pure coincidence, I assure you.

On topic (hopefully): Is it failure to report certain issues, or is it that reports made and published are being suppressed?

Vexnews, a news service that posts links on Twitter to already published online items worldwide, posted this tweet http://twitter.com/#!/vexnews/status/126201112486363136 at 6:41 PM AEDST yesterday, 18 October 2011. Clicking on the link in it, http://t.co/Etl5phLr , yielded a '404 notice', 'page not found'. See: http://twitpic.com/72bwt8

One would think there would have had to have been an article in existence online in the first case for Vexnews to have read and attempted to link to it.

So did Vexnews make a typo in the link it provided, was the original online news item page taken down for some reason by the (UK) Telegraph newspaper, or was the link originally posted on Twitter by Vexnews subsequently altered (by some agency other than Vexnews) in some small respect such as to make it yield a '404 notice'?

If a capability exists to do the last-mentioned, it could be used as a form of covert, at least partial, if not quite censorship of news, suppression of its spread.

I did note recently, in an online discussion about Twitter hashtags, claims by some posters following an 'Occupy Wall Street' hashtag that despite a large number of posts to it, that particular topic was not showing up as a trending topic on Twitter. This engendered the suspicion that Twitter may be the source of, or subject to, interference with tweets. FWIW, these posters did seem to have hard information as to respective hashtag traffic volumes upon which to base their suspicions.

Things are so transient online. First you see them. Then you don't. Thats why I take screenshots and post them as twitpics.
Posted by Forrest Gumpp, Wednesday, 19 October 2011 7:49:00 AM
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look steven
i like you very much

but you named the title

WHY DOES THIS RECIEVE SO LITTLE COVERAGE...in australia
not the futility of burning nuns

so i reply the topic mate
commenting on what cant get up as its own topic
what people are too afraid to talk about..thus dont get coverage

systematicly dont allow coverage
[noting as a write..those new aussie jests are going to be retro fitted...[so they have that special ability to disrupt free communication]

also we cant talk about much other stuff
nuns burning themselves isnt going to change china
because thats not news worthy to those serving the beast

mate pick more narrow headings
if you want to limit comment to burning nuns
then call it nun burning 101..why am i needing to inform you?

ps this isnt abnout israel
its about keeping us in the dark
so the two party demonic autiocracy
can silence those it dont want to hear

thats why i stopped trying to write to the editor
and stopped blogging on bbc/abc and sbs..who auto correct

ie CEN-SORE
to serve a certain adgenda

mate we love each other
or at least i really respect you

but if it was a burning jew
or a burning xtian nun

it would be on the news non stop

you know how much the 99% are resisting
in part resisting the global priest hoods
you know that other topic we cant diss cuss

even in these times of if it bleeds it leads
Posted by one under god, Wednesday, 19 October 2011 8:12:25 AM
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steven
Are you suggesting a media blackout on all things anti-China due to economic interests? If so, and I am not sure that is your implication, I doubt this would influence the majority of journalists in this country. It might influence the government commenting on the events but the media?

It probably has more to do with distractions of other domestic political events, trivial as some of them are. We could blame the pressures of the 24 hour news cycle but I reckon it is more to do with what the media think people are most interested. The media is sales driven, not news driven, and they will stick the most 'saleable' stories on the front page. Tibet may be lucky to get a mention in the International section.

It is a shame there is not more media coverage of these sad events. Perhaps your post will provide some impetus in that regard.
Posted by pelican, Wednesday, 19 October 2011 8:27:58 AM
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Steve,
I think Pelican is right.

The media editors decide what they think will interest their readers most.

This morning there was an article by a commentator in smh about the SIEV X, which took up about 1000 words.

That is 10 years ago, but apparently smh thinks it is still newsworthy. There was some debarcle about the NBN the other day in Queensland, but nothing heard since.
Posted by Banjo, Wednesday, 19 October 2011 8:59:05 AM
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Hi Steven,

It is a shame that this did not receive much
news coverage in this country. However our
political scene has been the focus of everyone's
attention recently with the passing of the carbon
tax legislation in parliament, the rowdy
demonstraters in the public gallery, the asylum seeker
problems amongst other issues. News programs do
tend to feature stories that draw large
audiences - even if this means omitting issues that are
more sober but perhaps more significant also.
Fictional portrayals, too, often overrepresent some
categories of the population and underrepresent others.
Posted by Lexi, Wednesday, 19 October 2011 9:31:54 AM
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Steve,

To be brutally honest, news is interesting if it is different. Yet another self immolation with the same message does carry the same impact.
Posted by Shadow Minister, Wednesday, 19 October 2011 11:57:07 AM
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