Ethan Zuckerman comments on the lack of media interest (either mainstream or online) in the continuing conlicts in Darfur and in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He also reports the study in the Lancet of the number of deaths in the DRC, which I reported on Friday.
It is shameful that, with the honourable exception of Nicholas Kristof, these unfolding disasters have had almost no media attention.
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You have to look at who is profiting from that war before you get your answer about lack of media coverage. also who is selling people guns
The excellent film The Constant Gardener takes an unexpected detour via Darfur.