For media, are Paris victims more newsworthy than Beirut dead?

Published: Nov. 20, 2015, 9:23 p.m.

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Rem Rieder, USA Today media writer and former editor of American Journalism Review, talks with the Newseum Institute\\u2019s Gene Policinski about lingering criticism that U.S. and European news media gave saturation news coverage to the Nov. 13 ISIS attacks and deaths in Paris, but much less \\u2013 if at all \\u2013 coverage to bombings in Beirut and Nigeria at virtually the same time. Is it cultural insensitivity, valid news judgment, or what some are calling \\u201cempathy fatigue\\u201d?

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