Do you know any unreported news we should be more aware of, or any news being largely ignored/ downplayed by the MSM?


I'll start:

May 6th
 
Two days of violence  saw nearly 700 rockets fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel, claiming the lives of four Israelis
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israel-gaza-cease-hostilities-netanyahu-campaign-not-over-1.7208366

Who knew? it was barely covered in the main western media.

For others who may also have been confused, MSM = mainstream media.

I guess the internment of millions of Uighur muslims in China? Vox had an interesting video about it not long ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMkHcZ5IwjU

Or the complete lack of reporting on the formation and growth of Nigel Farage's 'The Brexit Party'  on most (all?) news outlets in the UK. Not a fan of the guy (or Brexit) at all, but seems strange that the BBC at least hasn't said a word about it.

Before I answer, I think it's important to state my position regarding the media. I don't think there's any real conspiracy theory going on, there's no ideological battle. Media groups don't hate black folks, Muslims, Chinese are whatever, their agenda is what it always has been... MONEY!
News material is a product and they'll report or embellish the product in a way to get maximum ratings, if that means only focusing on the terrorism and violence when reporting news relating to Muslims, that's what they'll do. The effects of their irresponsible bias and greed polarizes society, but they don't care. The money keeps rolling and that's all that matters.

Here's my theory:
America's news audience is mostly white and like any other racial or ethnic group (Koreans, Brits, Black Americans, Arabs etc.) there exists a conscious or subconscious desire to "see your team win" or "see the other team lose", it gives the viewer a sense of comfort and boosts their ego and reaffirms their views, you'll notice the news never does a u-turn on on their point of view, it's generally the same narrative. All this leads to better ratings and more money. The media seems to go out of their way to make people racist and xenophobic because it makes them rich. 



- Palestine, Apartheid on steroids and very little being reported.

- Uighur Muslims in concentration camps... literal concentration camps. The CCP breaking up Muslim families, putting the
  husbands in camps, forcing Muslim women to marry Han Chinese men to up the birthrate and literally having government
  minders live in the homes of Muslim families to spy on them.

- And for the most shocking, the Western media never reports on the fact that Dokdo is Korea's.

I know lots of stuff being either ignored by - or openly lied about - by the MSM, but I'll be damned if I'm going to open that can of worms here...
 
  Given the general level of discourse I've observed numerous times on this site, and the devolution of quite interesting and deserving topics/issues into fractious drivel, I think I'll pass for now...Which is a shame, because there are some issues being ignored that should receive significantly more exposure.

Here's my theory:
America's news audience is mostly white and like any other racial or ethnic group (Koreans, Brits, Black Americans, Arabs etc.) there exists a conscious or subconscious desire to "see your team win" or "see the other team lose", it gives the viewer a sense of comfort and boosts their ego and reaffirms their views, you'll notice the news never does a u-turn on on their point of view, it's generally the same narrative. All this leads to better ratings and more money. The media seems to go out of their way to make people racist and xenophobic because it makes them rich. 

I think you've got that the wrong way round. White cop kills unarmed black guy = massive story, Black cop kills unarmed white guy doesn't make the news.  People in the US don't care about Muslims in China because they probably couldn't point to it on a map.

Hitler was gay.

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Here's my theory:
America's news audience is mostly white and like any other racial or ethnic group (Koreans, Brits, Black Americans, Arabs etc.) there exists a conscious or subconscious desire to "see your team win" or "see the other team lose", it gives the viewer a sense of comfort and boosts their ego and reaffirms their views, you'll notice the news never does a u-turn on on their point of view, it's generally the same narrative. All this leads to better ratings and more money. The media seems to go out of their way to make people racist and xenophobic because it makes them rich. 

I think you've got that the wrong way round. White cop kills unarmed black guy = massive story, Black cop kills unarmed white guy doesn't make the news.  People in the US don't care about Muslims in China because they probably couldn't point to it on a map.

Agreed, but I'd say we're both right. The media doesn't seem to be being impartial by reporting both sides, they're taking advantage of playing both sides against one another and thus, creating and stoking a stratified society. They'll bring up the up the racist white cop narrative in the morning and the young black criminal narrative in the afternoon.

Yes, as said, they wouldn't report on what's happening in China because most viewers are clueless to it/it won't be good for ratings.