MainStream Media Love teh Pirates NOW, but Where were They Last Year?,
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News.bbc.co.uk reported on this over the weekend and it struck me as very odd. The media seems to be making such a big deal out of these pirates now, but with pirates commiting statistically approaching 1 attack per day last year, where has the MSM been?
That said, I don't think the pirates should be getting that much coverage anyway since they're really not pirates in any real sense. I mean, these are Somalis for crying out loud--it's not like they're plundering ships for gold--what kind of funding do they even have?
The other day on Democracy Now, they had a guy on who said what we call "Somali Pirates" the Somali people call "the Somali Coast Guard". What do you want? They're a 3rd World country!
