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What is Twitter Saying About Coverage of Texas and South Asia Floods?

How people on social media are reacting to the world鈥檚 media giving a disproportionate amount of coverage to Texas over South Asia.

When two natural disasters strike different parts of the globe at the same time, which one does the world's media focus on? Despite there being a disproportionate amount of lives affected, Storm Harvey in Texas has repeatedly hit the headlines while the crisis in South Asia has been largely ignored. This has not escaped the steely gaze of those on Twitter. Georgina Rannard from 麻豆官网首页入口 Social News tells Rajan what kind of impact social media can have in redressing the balance.

Also, as the Kenyan Election result is annulled by the Supreme Court we asked Nairobi news desk editor, Wanyama Chebusiri what new challenges arise for the next election, and listener, Bob Davis isn鈥檛 happy about early coverage of the turnaround.

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Mon 11 Sep 2017 05:50GMT

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