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Comment by forkLding | Hacker News Reader

Sad to see the media no longer reporting Syrian news or seeing it as a headline, whats happening there is very tragic.

Yemen is also conveniently absent from main stream media coverage despite the horrible bus full of school children incident this week.

I think this is very dependent on how you find your news stories. In Apple News today I see 6 Syria stories. These are from very mainstream news outlets too: CNN, the Guardian, Reuters, Wired.

In Google News (different device) I see stories about Yemen in the past day from USA Today, Reuters, the Guardian, the Irish Times, the Washington Post, and the New York Times. Most appear to mention the school bus bombing.

I admittedly don't know what makes the front page of printed news or goes into heavy rotation on TV news. I've been using news aggregators instead of any one publisher for a decade+.

I maintain a database of news articles from local news sources and sometimes query it if I feel something is underreported re Syria. Sometimes it is and sometimes it's just a wrong feeling. Developments in Daraa/Quneitra were much less reported than developments in E. Ghouta earlier this year.

This x 100. The news is being reported, but so many of us just digest what the aggregators and algorithms decide is most relevant - it saves a ton of time. Today's readers need to be curious to be well-informed.

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