By Erica Wong |Copy Editor| Why did the Paris attacks get significantly more news coverage when the Beirut bombings went largely ignored? On Nov. 12, two suicide bombers detonated outside a suburb of Beirut, Lebanon. A day later, there were multiple attacks in Paris. With the two cities still reeling, world leaders lined up to express their condolences and show solidarity–but there was overwhelming silence regarding the tragedy in Lebanon. “When my people died, they did not send the world into mourning. Their death was but an irrelevant fleck among the international news cycle, something that happens in THOSE parts of the world,” stated Elie Fares, a Lebanese doctor lamenting the … [Read more...] about The Empathy Gap Between Paris and Beirut