News isn't News unless it gets you views.

The news. What do we think of when we hear that? We think of an expressive, investigative and often unbiased force which delivers the truth through our televisions, through the internet and through paper. All it asks for is our continued viewership, our hashtags, our retweets and our facebook likes.
What's emerged from the growing reliance that news channels seem to have on social media, is that the news is no longer about actually bringing us the news. Moreover, the biggest news outlets, the ones we trust the most, seem to be delving further into the sensationalist garbage that we receive from the tabloids. That's not to say that all the mainstream news outlets are the same, and of course there are still some great bastions of hope that exist within the world of journalism.
This, however, is the reason that we see a journalist of many years, hovering outside of a hospital awaiting the birth of the royal baby saying to us all 'Nothing is happening.'
While that particular example is indeed quite funny, this sensationalist drama bleeds into more serious news. The most recent that I think will be in everyone's minds is the continuous reporting of the terrorist attacks in Paris where twelve people were killed. As I mentioned in my previous post, previous to this incident hundreds of Nigerians were murdered by Boko Haram, who abhorrently utilise the young girls they kidnapped from a school previously as weapons in their war.
Tragic and disgusting as these attacks on Paris were, the attacks on Nigeria are a far more important and scary topic. Our world leaders should be marching in solidarity for Nigeria, rather than France. We didn't even see this large of an outcry when one hundred and thirty two Pakistani children were gunned down by extremists in a school.

The reason is, is that our news outlets think people won't care, their main goal is to achieve views and increase their profit. The recent situation in Nigeria was only reported on once there was a huge outcry about the lack of coverage, and even then, the coverage given was incredibly lax.

It should be our media's duty to report on all aspects of the world, so as to drum up support for the correct causes. It is obviously understandable that our media will focus on issues closer to home, but the sheer scale of this most recent atrocity in Nigeria has brought to light how far the media has fallen in its efforts to report the 'news'.