When 100,000 girls were routinely kidnapped...

"When a prominent dissident was arrested in China, we would write a front-page article; when 100,000 girls were routinely kidnapped and trafficked into brothels, we didn't even consider it news. Partly that is because we journalists tend to be good at covering events that happen on a particular day, but we slip at covering events that happen every day - such as the quotidian cruelties inflicted on women and girls"

N. D. Kristof, S. WuDunn, "Half the sky. Turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide"