Today there were almost simultaneous bombings in the transit system of Mumbai (formerly Bombay) India. As of this writing, there are reports of over 150 dead.

Of course, I got those reports from CNNInternational, since there is almost no coverage of the situation on CNN or MSNBC.

Not to minimize what happened in London a year ago, but less than a third the number of people were killed and yet those events got constant live coverage on all the major networks. These events in India get an occasional blurb on CNN or MSNBC, and that’s about it. At least CNN has their CNNInternational channel (on some cable systems, including TimeWarner here in SD) with live coverage, but where is the rest of the press?

Why doesn’t India rate the same coverage as England?  In both cases they were terrorist attacks (probably extremist Muslim terrorists, too). In both cases the terrorists hit transit targets during rush hour. In both cases they used bombs set up with nails/screws to fly as shrapnel. And yet the Indian events (that they have already noted as their “attacks of 7/11″) are getting only occasional coverage.

Do I really need to say it?