Twenty-one of those kidnap victims in Nigeria have been returned to their parents â?? a victory for that nation's government and for the alertness of mainstream media in this 30-month-long story.
What is not so alert is the recurring blindness of most media to the religious dimension of the conflict: the abduction of 276 schoolgirls, most of them Christian, by the jihadist gang known as Boko Haram.
We GetReligionistas have been giving very mixed reviews on the coverage. We've praised mainstream media for keeping an eye on the story, while criticizing the way they seem to dismiss the religious beliefs of captives and captors alike.
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