Tragedy that did not get attention at all!!

Today, over 25,000 children died around the world
That is equivalent to:
1 child dying every 3.5 seconds
17-18 children dying every minute
A 2004 Asian Tsunami occurring almost every 1.5 weeks
An Iraq-scale death toll every 16–38 days
Over 9 million children dying every year
Some 70 million children dying between 2000 and 2007
The silent killers are poverty, hunger, easily preventable diseases and illnesses, and other related causes. In spite of the scale of this daily/ongoing catastrophe, it rarely manages to achieve, much less sustain, prime-time, headline coverage.

Why is this tragedy not in the headlines?
UNICEF’s 2000 Progress of Nations report tried to put these numbers into some perspective:

'The continuation of this suffering and loss of life contravenes the natural human instinct to help in times of disaster. Imagine the horror of the world if a major earthquake were to occur and people stood by and watched without assisting the survivors! Yet every day, the equivalent of a major earthquake killing over 30,000 young children occurs to a disturbingly muted response. They die quietly in some of the poorest villages on earth, far removed from the scrutiny and the conscience of the world. Being meek and weak in life makes these dying multitudes even more invisible in death."
— A spotty scorecard, UNICEF, Progress of Nations 2000

Unfortunately, it seems that the world still does not notice. It might be reasonable to expect that death and tragedy on this scale should be prime time headlines news. Yet, these issues only surface when there are global meetings or concerts (such as the various G8 summits, the Make Poverty History campaign in 2005, etc).
Furthermore, year after year, we witness that when those campaigns end and the meetings conclude, so does the mainstream media coverage.
It feels as though even when there is some media attention, the ones who suffer are not the ones that compel the mainstream to report, but instead it is the movement of the celebrities and leaders of the wealthy countries that makes this issue newsworthy.
Even rarer in the mainstream media is any thought that wealthy countries may be part of the problem too. The effects of international policies, the current form of globalization, and the influence the wealthy countries have on these processes is rarely looked at.
Instead, promises and pledges from the wealthy, powerful countries, and the corruption of the poorer ones—who receive apparently abundant goodwill—make the headlines; the repeated broken promises, the low quality and quantity of aid, and conditions with unfair strings attached do not.
Accountability of the recipient countries is often mentioned when these issues touch the mainstream. Accountability of the roles that international institutions such as the World Bank and IMF, and their funders (the wealthy/powerful countries), rarely does. The risk is that citizens of these countries get a false sense of hope creating the misleading impression that appropriate action is taken in their names.
It may be harsh to say the mainstream media is one of the many causes of poverty, as such, but the point here is that their influence is enormous. Silence, as well as noise, can both have an effect.
More information in:http://www.globalissues.org/article/715/today-over-25000-children-died-around-the-world
Website which could help those children:http://www.worldvision.org/




Personal opinion
I strongly agree with this article in the term that how could such important issue is not in the headline of the mainstream media which is about continuation of this suffering and loss of life of our tomorrow world’s leader. Instead of reporting this kind of news, the mainstream media would rather report the movement of the celebrities and leaders of the wealthy countries which is considered more newsworthy (buyers are more interested in these kind of issues and the sales is always there with these issues).
These had showed us the ugly side of human natural in handling things. We, human could ignore the other’s death as long as it doesn’t making profits. Money is always the first thing to be considered in making any decision instead of care and love towards those dying life.
Although what those medias did is consider normal and human natural but it still can not deny the fact of they have kill the chance that those children can be save from poverty, deceases and harmful environment for their growth. It has been a silent killer who takes off those children life that easily without a word of sorry.
I did not mean to blame those media and very understand that they have their own difficulties. Just do what we can to save our children, for example donating money, join the campaigns which held to help them and spread these news to people around us.