The Discerning Texan
All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke
-- Edmund Burke
Thursday, October 13, 2005
Media continues to downplay Islamist terror. Case in point: today's Islamist murders in Russia
It really is getting to the point where the media might as well move its offices to Riyadh or Damascus. Any protest about the word God in the Pledge of Allegiance is front page news and leads the nightly news. Meanwhile as Radical Muslims continue to slaughter innocent people all over the globe you barely can even FIND a reference to religion at all. The double standard I posted about last night is alive and well (via Michelle Malkin):
Yesterday, I wrote about the MSM whitewashing Islam out of news reports. Today's coverage of the violent Muslim terrorist outbreak in Russia underscores my point:
60 killed as Chechen gunmen attack cityChechen rebel attack fuels growing unrestChechens attack Caucasus townPolice battle militants in Russia
Look how far down you have to read those stories before you are told that it is Islamic radical terrorists wreaking havoc and murdering innocent people, not just plain-vanilla "gunmen" and nondescript "militants" run amok.
This Bloomberg article gets it right in the lede graf. So does this AP story. But so far, the only headline I've seen that puts the I-word up front is this one in The Moscow Times:Islamic Militants Raid Nalchik, 24 Dead
I noted the same trend in reporting (or rather, non-reporting) of the Beslan massacre last year.
The sins of omission continue to pile up.
Yesterday, I wrote about the MSM whitewashing Islam out of news reports. Today's coverage of the violent Muslim terrorist outbreak in Russia underscores my point:
60 killed as Chechen gunmen attack cityChechen rebel attack fuels growing unrestChechens attack Caucasus townPolice battle militants in Russia
Look how far down you have to read those stories before you are told that it is Islamic radical terrorists wreaking havoc and murdering innocent people, not just plain-vanilla "gunmen" and nondescript "militants" run amok.
This Bloomberg article gets it right in the lede graf. So does this AP story. But so far, the only headline I've seen that puts the I-word up front is this one in The Moscow Times:Islamic Militants Raid Nalchik, 24 Dead
I noted the same trend in reporting (or rather, non-reporting) of the Beslan massacre last year.
The sins of omission continue to pile up.
