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CIA agents indicted in Germany

February 7, 2007 in Rants by markk

13 CIA agents who are suspected of kidnapping a German citizen have been indicted by German prosecutors. This is pretty big news, no? So why has this episode, with all it’s implications for US-Europe relations and the war on terror, been completely ignored by the Australian media?

It’s all very well for topless publicity seekers to get saturation media coverage, but, you know, there are other things going on in the world!

Australian media coverage of world affairs is quite good when they actually choose to cover a story, but all too often they focus with laser-like intensity on the trivial at the expense of the important.

I mean, CIA agents getting arrested? That is an interesting, newsworthy story! What more do they want?

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February 7, 2007 at 7:11 pm

Pete Aldinski

Australian media is not interested in stories that

a) need to be explained to people
b) have any layer of complexity beyond “something happened to Person A and it’s Person B’s fault” or “Politician A said blah-blah-blah about such-and-such a-topic and Politician B said he’s wrong.”

Oh and they LOVE 22 year old semi-nudists with a soapbox, who happen to share a name with a physically abusive celebrity. Allegedly.

February 7, 2007 at 9:04 pm

Saa

There is also another reason why Australian media is not interested in this story that

Australian govt. is right wing party, they are helping US politically in Iraq war and when its newspapers though how free they can be still they wont publish the news which will create minor tension between two countries.

Same in Europe the media is so biased, though they call them FREE, but hell they are so hypocrite, that only trusting single source/ country’s media is just making yourself fool.

February 8, 2007 at 7:24 pm

Markk

Murdoch’s papers are right wing, but what of the others? It depends. A free press will still push their own barrow, and often their ideas about what the viewers want make no sense.

Perhaps if the CIA agents had slogans scrawled across their chests …