Okay, I understood why the media practically obssessed about Afghanistan’s extremist Islamic government destroying Buddhist statutes. U.S. newspapers, radio stations, television news, all featured an enormous amount of coverage of the event given that it was an international news story, but after all these were priceless statutes.
Now, however, the front pages of the nation’s newspapers and television are devoted to way too much coverage of the government-sponsored slaughter of 300 men, women and children in northern Afghanistan.
Wait a minute, what’s that? They’re not covering the story and you haven’t heard about the massacre? Well, thank goodness the American media have their priorities straight — they wouldn’t want to put real human beings ahead of statues now would they?
Source:
Afghan massacre reports firm up. The BBC, March 28, 2001.