How the Media Measures Bravery

On Monday (1^st April) is wrote a post titled “Free” Press.  At the start of the post I mentioned about the Senegalese bus driver in Italy who had kidnapped 51 12-year-old kids on his bus then poured petrol down the vehicle’s centre aisle after he forced the three other adults to tie the kids hands together with zip ties He confiscated everyone’s phones but luckly one child kept his hidden and rang his mother, who contacted the police.  My point was how little media coverage this attracted and how if the opposite had happened, i.e. if it was a white, “right-wing”, Italian born man who kidnaps 51  immigrant children, and that this scenario would be headline news everywhere .

Well…..there is one part of this story that is circulating the news especially in Italy as it is what the multi-culturalism advocating powers want..... which is positive propaganda in this case a “good-immigrant” story.  As on the bus  when the children were being tied up, a 13-year-old boy of Egyptian origin called Ramy secretly used his mobile phone to alert his mother  to what was happening. Then his mother alerted the police. The actions of this kid Ramy who was a migrant from Egypt to Italy were indeed brave and noble….he deserves praise, he deserves publicity …..I totally support this, but this is not my point…..my point is about what another kid did on that bus, a story that is not getting the same level of publicity, the reason why which I only can guess is  that this other kid was a native Italian and in a media driven by politics it does not constitute as a “good migrant lefties were right all along” feel good story!!

This other wee kid was called Nicolò, what did he do you ask? .. when the Senegalese born hostage taker shouted along the bus” Who among you will offer themselves as my hostage?”  Most of the bus’s occupants were busy praying, crying, shitting themselves or hiding, all perfectly understandable for 12 year old kids in such a horrendous situation which makes Nicolò actions all that more braver . But in the midst of it all, 12-year-old Nicolò stepped forward and declared “ME” 

Yet this did not feature any coverage by the big television stations or newspapers and was almost shallowed up and completely overshadowed by wee migrant Ramy hiding is mobile and calling mummy. I don’t deny this as bravery for a second but it still does not measure up to the prepared self-sacrifice of wee Nicolo!!!   Oh, and Ramy called his Mum whilst pretending to pray in Arabic...this is a important part the news wants to highlight.

Ramy's dad who immigrated to Itally from Egypt in 2001 told the news how nice it would be if his son now got Italian citizenship for his act if bravery  ....which is deed he got (deserved I think), fast tracked and made very public.

Not sure what the wee lad Nicolò got.   Perhaps a pat on the head?