Urgent: how come no one in the US is reporting this?

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I haven't checked the television, but neither Salon nor Reuters nor CNN online seem to think this is an important story:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2589317.stm

Am I missing something? Is this somehow not newsworthy?

― J0hn Darn13ll3 (J0hn Darn13ll3), Friday, 20 December 2002 13:41 (twenty-three years ago)

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 20 December 2002 13:43 (twenty-three years ago)

They did a surprisingly thorough story on it on NPR as I drove home last night. Frickin' frightening.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 20 December 2002 14:06 (twenty-three years ago)

The press only covers stories about black guys with guns.

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Friday, 20 December 2002 15:37 (twenty-three years ago)

or white guys with money

― maura (maura), Friday, 20 December 2002 15:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Or priests who hump children.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 20 December 2002 15:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Didn't make the front page of the NY Times yesterday or today - there's a Reuters wire story buried inside, but I can't find any evidence that the Times actually sent their own reporters out there to investigate. The story made the front page of the LA Times yesterday, but I'm not seeing a followup there today. Saw the BBC coverage, couldn't find anything in the Guardian. Top stories are mostly on Lott and designs for a new WTC. And war with Iraq. I guess large numbers of Muslims being detained in the US isn't considered "newsworthy" anymore.

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 20 December 2002 16:02 (twenty-three years ago)

The CNN story nicely refrained from actually pointing out that people had been arrested.

Also, I do have to wonder why there isn't a 24-hour news Channel about this.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 20 December 2002 16:09 (twenty-three years ago)

The Washington Post buried it on page A16 (quels cockfarmers), although the story did pick up on the theme someone noted in another thread, that the Iranian community in the U.S. is notably affluent and conservative.

― j.lu (j.lu), Friday, 20 December 2002 16:11 (twenty-three years ago)

It was one of the front page stories in yahoonews.

but I'll wager the 12ft Lizards don't want the American public to know too much about the gulag being built in their midst.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 20 December 2002 17:16 (twenty-three years ago)

when will the global community finally start taking action against the united states? it's been pretty clear for some years now that it is impossible for any nation to pursue a course of self-determination without being subject to american law. from something as harmless as canada's intended reform to marijuana legislation to something as massive and planet-affecting as the kyoto accord, the united states makes it very clear that they're very intent on driving the whole show into the toilet as fast as they possibly can.

does the word 1939 ring a bell? holy frick.

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Friday, 20 December 2002 17:56 (twenty-three years ago)

here's the thing most of those arrested are in the united states past their visa alloted times, i guess we are meant to ignore this fact. why have immigration laws if they are to be ignored? the bit about concentration camps is foolish. they aren't being shipped off to the gas chambers, they are iranian citizens who have overstayed their visa and are to be shipped home. the list of 20 countries where immigrants have to register are all terrorist states, maybe if their regimes renounced terrorism they might not be looked at differently.

― keith (keithmcl), Friday, 20 December 2002 18:14 (twenty-three years ago)

How is this even half as awful in comparison to what Middle Eastern immigrants in Europe go through?

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 20 December 2002 21:12 (twenty-three years ago)

How is this even half as awful in comparison to what Middle Eastern immigrants in Europe go through?

Go on.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Saturday, 21 December 2002 13:21 (twenty-three years ago)

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