Source: NepalNews
http://www.nepalnews.com.np/contents/englishweekly/spotlight/2004/sep/sep17/national3.htm
The heavyweights of international journalism are on display at the entrance of the bookstore Bidur Dangol runs in Thamel. The International Herald Tribune, Le Monde, and Der Spiegel hang outside. Stacks of the latest copies of Newsweek and Time sit just inside the door.
As a fortunate side-effect of his job, Dangol is arguably one of the most well-informed men in Kathmandu. But over the past three week, the world press has let him down.
“When they were just being held, nobody bothered,” he says, referring to the foreign media's ignoring of the Nepali hostage crisis. “Once they were dead, and there was movement in Nepal, then they reported.”
It had been a tough week to make international headlines when 12 Nepali workers were brutally executed by Islamic extremists.
In Iraq, media attention was riveted on another hostage crisis. Two French journalists were being held by militants in response to France's decision to ban Muslim head scarves in public schools. Suicide bombs once again rocked Israel, blowing up two buses, killing 16, and injuring more than 100. And in the United States, the Republican Party's national convention was still a hot topic.