Report: 0.7 percent of terror victims in Western Europe

The statistic in the news story are very shocking due to the fact that we hardly hear of terror attacks outside of the west so therefore finding out that only 0.7% of attacks happen here is a shock. This seems unfair considering tens of thousands of attacks happen in the middle east and Asia compared to only a few hundred in western Europe. This proves the fact that many newspapers tend to ignore stories from outside of developed countries due to ideologies that these stories are 'not as important' despite being more frequent. This is because newspapers may not think the general pubic care about a terror attack in Iraq as much as they would about a terror attack in London due to the news value of proximity. This could be due to 'otherness' in which groups of people different from us, in this case people in developing countries, are treated differently and possibly with less respect. Therefore I doubt that this news story would be covered in mainstream UK news as thing such as the proximity and threshold are not what UK newspapers would consider 'important' or 'correct'.