How Much Less Newsworthy Are Civilians in Other Conflicts?
Sadly, most people simply respond to the underlying story/sympathies the media wish to generate.
Comment by Dr. Carol C. Mukhopadhyay
Tag: Daniel Hannan
It’s Different, They’re White: Media Ignore Conflicts Around the World to Focus on Ukraine
A MintPress News analysis found that in a single week Fox News, The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, and MSNBC ran almost 1,300 separate stories on the Ukraine invasion, two stories on the Syria attack, one on Somalia, and none at all on the Saudi-led war on Yemen.
It’s Different, They’re White: Media Ignore Conflicts Around the World to Focus on Ukraine
In Ukraine reporting, Western press reveals grim bias toward ‘people like us’
In Ukraine reporting, Western press reveals grim bias toward ‘people like us’
Unfortunately, in Europe’s newest conflict, at least one age-old problem persists: The limits of empathy in wartime are still too often measured by race.
Western media goes white nationalist, calls Ukraine more ‘civilized’ than Iraq, whitewashes US wars
Media outlets are calling Ukraine “civilized,” emphasizing that its people are white European Christians, while ignoring or whitewashing the US military occupations of Syria and Iraq, Western-backed Saudi bombing of Yemen, and constant Israeli attacks on Syrians and Palestinians.
Western media goes white nationalist, calls Ukraine more ‘civilized’ than Iraq, whitewashes US wars
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