Iraqi Democracy Has a Media Image Problem
While the world and its major media outlets are fixated on the ongoing protests in Hong Kong and across South America, the never-ending problems faced by fragile governments in the Middle East, as always, gets pushed to the back of the collective mind. As the civil war and subsequent refugee problem in Syria amply demonstrate, the world has become too callous toward the chaos that originates in the Middle East and is becoming all too complacent and willing to assume that the region will be surrounded by unending violence and suffering that outsiders have little power to stop or control.