How concerned was the MSM about Ebola before a white missionary got sick?

[RandySF]

*crickets*

[Cali_Democrat]

1. The MSM also likes to focus on missing white blondes

While missing black and brown girls don't get nearly the same coverage.

It's another example of how the MSM and the power structure in this country view the lives of minorities as less valuable.

[Journeyman]

2. I read a considerable number of articles over the past 20 years. . .

There was even a novel written about a terror attack using aerosolized Ebola by Tom Clancy, Executive Orders, published in 1996.

Many of the articles I read postulated the potential for wider outbreaks, and concluded we were lucky so far that the incidents up to then had all taken place in isolated regions and that the disease acts so swiftly the victims were dead before they could spread it far. I don't remember any article taking a cavalier approach, or not detailing the need for a cure.

[Wellstone ruled]

3. What do you expect.

MSM is owned and controlled by greedy old white guys. Same crap just a new day. Many of us who were youngsters in the late 40's and early 50's remember the Polio,and small pocks out break. Major difference was,radio stations did not go fear mongering like the twits at Fake Noise and NBC and ABC. Most of the people running Media today never came in contact with any contagious disease in that time frame. The richies that lived on the hill never came any were near the infected people like my rich friend told me. Once the out breaks ebbed,then we could interact. Same crap just a new century. Yes there is racism in the white peoples ranks.

[Earth_First]

4. Related:

[liberal_at_heart]

5. +1

[Ampersand Unicode]

6. How concerned was the M$M about AIDS before a white kid from the Midwest got sick?

Millions of human beings died from this illness all throughout Reagan's administration. HW Bush really only signed the Ryan White Act because a white teenager from rural Indiana became the "human face" of the disease. No offense to Ryan or his family, but nobody in Middle America, nobody on the M$M news, and certainly nobody in D.C., cared that AIDS was killing gay people or Africans. The psychotic televangelists and senile bigot Reagan just assumed it was "God's wrath" taking its course against the undesirable sinners.



They didn't even react with legislation for Elizabeth Glaser. Just a Hollywood bride of a B-list movie star, no one of consequence.

Uh, wait a minute...

[Nye Bevan]

7. I think the big news in this country was the first US case of Ebola, and the first death in the US.

Things like scary viruses are always bigger news when close to home. And I think that this would have been the case regardless of the victim's race.

The eagerness of some to inject race into everything is a little unseemly.

[AverageJoe90]

8. Yeah, this, pretty much.

[LanternWaste]

10. Almost as unseemly as the eagerness of some to dismiss race in every instance...

"The eagerness of some to inject race into everything is a little unseemly..."

Almost as unseemly as the eagerness of some to dismiss race in every instance...

Six of one, half a dozen of the other. Insert distinction without a difference below.

[Nye Bevan]

16. I'm not sure whether you are suggesting that I "dismiss race in every instance",

but of course, I do not.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025406594#post7

But in the case of Ebola, I am happy to see that most respondents to this thread agree with me regarding the OP's race-baiting.

[Dreamer Tatum]

9. Do you want a real answer, or the answer you've already decided on without looking it up?

I recall seeing stories all over the place about it. Maybe your attention was elsewhere, on some other
fanciful outrage?

[Nuclear Unicorn]

11. If you have nothing better to do than engage in petty race baiting just

shut the hell up and get out of the way.

Criminy, people are dying horribly and others are risking their lives and families to care for them. The last thing this situation needs is charlatan antics trying to score cheap points off of other people's suffering.

Grow some goddam humanity already.

I'll take my chances with the jury.

[newblewtoo]

12. Well said

The quality of discourse over the last several years here has degenerated to mere name calling and regurgitation of talking points. Once the home of great and principled debate, it is falling into a home for trolls and flame wars. High post counts are not always indicative of high intellect.

[Nye Bevan]

13. +1

Threads like this are not Du's finest hour.

[belzabubba333]

14. it's a popular game here. if the victim were (insert color here) than the resopnse would have

(insert predictive outcome here). not just color but sex as well.

[B2G]

15. +1000

And for the record, I've been reading a ton of articles since June. They have been out there.

That you didn't notice says more about you than anything else.

[kiva]

17. Some people find entertainment

in seeing if they can find a way to turn all topics and threads to their favorite subject. And yes, it's pretty nasty when someone worries more about publicity than people dying.