Media Blackhole

When 800,000 Rwandans died in 100 days in 1994 under the watchful peacekeeping eye of the United Nations, few  Western media outlets spent much time bemoaning the loss.  It fell into a Media Blackhole, a field where no blame exists and no public consciousness is ever raised. (Just in case someone questions the Liberal Kumbaya narrative and pricks the bubble of the Utopian dream.)

So, too, the death of white farmers in Africa has been largely ignored because, well, presumably because they were white and it doesn't fit the Evil White Man narrative of the WashingtonPost-NewYorkTimes-Los Angeles Times-CBS-NBC-ABC cabal.

The Times of London reports that over 3,000 white farmers have been killed since 1994 in South Africa. (Also see Wikipedia entry.) Amid economic and social failures, the ANC appears to be fanning the flames, as a prelude to nationalizing the farmlands as "national assets." The ANC was furious when the song intended to incite youth was banned by a court.

From the European Union Times:

In South Africa, it is safer to be a miner than a farmer. At least two white farmers or family members are murdered every week; last year alone, 120 were killed. With a radical new policy on land expropriation being mooted by the ruling African National Congress (ANC), talk in rural areas frequently turns to South Africa becoming the next Zimbabwe.

South Africa has one of the world's highest crime rates. With an average of 50 killings a day, it hardly seems like the ideal place to hold the 2010 World Cup that is slated to begin June 11. But perhaps the players will be housed in gated communities and all the private security they want. And the media can continue to pretend it's Mandela's Paradise Found.