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Publius 8 years, 7 months ago on VIDEO: Hundreds march for the right to breathe

VIDEO: Hundreds march for the right to breathe

It is a disgrace the way the Bahamas media downplayed the turnout and accomplishment of this initiative. Both papers are leading in print and online with photos showing 3 to 4 people max, that is an absolute travesty when over one thousand people took part. Photojournalism is a critical and indispensable part of the story media houses tell the world. The media can lead with aerials of a crowd at Carnival or a political rally, but when the people stand up for their very lives and do so in a well organized and mature manner - it gets treated like a random souse out by the media. The stories in print also do no justice to what took place. Anyone who was not there or was not following the event in real time would, by the media reports, believe that this was just a little event with a few ticked off people venting for the time being - which means the media has failed in giving the true and accurate picture. I guess next time, such initiatives need to be primarily sponsored by certain infamous expatriates in order to get the press they should in their own country.