{"id":1903,"date":"2005-10-25T18:51:16","date_gmt":"2005-10-26T01:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/10\/25\/if-you-can-spare-a-little-money-and-would-like-to-save-some-lives\/"},"modified":"2005-10-25T18:51:16","modified_gmt":"2005-10-26T01:51:16","slug":"if-you-can-spare-a-little-money-and-would-like-to-save-some-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1903","title":{"rendered":"If you can spare a little money and would like to save some lives.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t really talk about international issues much, but if you have a few bucks you can spare, then right now is an essential time to donate to help vicitms of the Pakistan earthquake. <a href=\"http:\/\/mediagirl.org\/node\/813\">Media Girl is on the case<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In her comments, Media Girl asks why the US media is so completely <i>off <\/i>the case:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>BBC World covers the tragedy every single night. US media does not. Why?<\/p>\n<p>Disaster burnout? Too many US disasters?<\/p>\n<p>My feeling is that it&#8217;s a combination of two things, primarily: Islamophobia, thanks to our president&#8217;s pandering to the worst impulses of xenophobia, and a feeling of powerlessness that has grown since the utter failure of our government in the aftermath of Katrina.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe it&#8217;s simply that the conglomerates that own the mainstream media don&#8217;t see any profit opportunity in Pakistan, and don&#8217;t want people sending more money overseas.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;m too cynical. But look at the scale of this disaster, and look at the virtual non-existence of the coverage, and tell me it&#8217;s just that it slipped the news editors&#8217; minds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t really talk about international issues much, but if you have a few bucks you can spare, then right now is an essential time to donate to help vicitms of the Pakistan earthquake. Media Girl is on the case. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1903\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-issues","category-media-criticism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}