Libya

'Libyan humanitarian catastrophe ignored by Western media'

As violence in Bani Walid continues for the 21st day, very few western media outlets appear interested in reporting on what some are calling a humanitarian catastrophe.

RT,

25 October, 2012

The silence is a far cry from the situation last year, when Libya and Colonel Gaddafi’s forces made front page news.

Today’s situation is much worse…the number of people killed since NATO intervened has gone up by ten to twenty times. We’ve got massacres going on at the moment and there’s complete silence in the UK and the US, journalist and author Neil Clark told RT.

Anytime there is a hint that the Syrian government has chemical weapons, it’s front page news on all the western channels. But this story about Libya just isn’t news, he said.

Clark spoke to RT about the alleged double standards of the western media when it comes to Libya and Syria.