The Discerning Texan
-- Edmund Burke
Thursday, July 05, 2007
UPDATED AND BUMPED - AP Sandbags One Massacre, Misreports another Massacre; NY Slimes continues its Downplaying and Whitewashing of Islamist Terror
It's interesting; when a Catholic priest molests a child, that does not mean that Catholics in general should be indicted--yet when a priest is discovered in such circumstances it makes every front page in the country--including the Times. Or perhaps when someone like Jimmy Swaggert is caught with a prostitute. That's obviously the "religious right". Or maybe when a single individual shoots an Abortion doctor (see how many references to religion you can count in this one...)
All of these items are newsworthy; but is the religion of the perpetrator? It would be one thing if the times did not ever discuss religion in the media in negative connotation with criminal or terrorist activity. But au contrare: In the above mentioned cases involving self-identified Christians, for whatever reason (wink wink), a perpetrator's religion suddenly does become germane to the New York Times (and please note that the Boston Globe is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the NYT).
If, on the other hand, a terror cell carries out a terror attack meant to kill or maim as many people as possible--and every single person in that cell happen to be radical Muslims--the Times runs like a bat out of hell away from distinguishing these "individuals" from any other person in the UK other than by giving their names and identifying that they are Doctors from other countries. They even try lame things like associating the attacks to Iraq or President Bush. Question: exactly what part of Iraq did the US occupy on 9/11/01?
Never mind that the religious ideology these terrorists ascribe to teaches (per the Koran, Hadith, and numerous nihilist fatwahs...) that it is OK to murder any and all unbelievers in the name of Islam, simply because they are unbelievers. Don't you think--in a news story where Radical Islamists are killing people as a part and parcel of that sick nihilist ideology, urged on by Clerics and their fatwahs--that their religion just might be a bit more germane to a story about their crimes than a story about a Priest who clearly violates Christian morality and law in molesting a child would be germane to being associated with that faith?
This is not merely a sin of omission; this is far worse than being irresponsible. This is dangerous and dishonest to the people which the Times so ostentatiously pretends to serve. To not report these facts is to deceive the people by under-emphasizing a worldwide movement of bloodthirsty Islamist religious zealots whose threat is real and tangible, and which is quite open about its aims.
News is what people use to determine who they vote for, and thus who defends our country against these monsters. To so skew the news by under-reporting and downplaying a threat against the very lives of the people it serves is not simply an act of cowardice; it is a disguised frontal assault on the well being of a free people. At that point the so-called news becomes little more than pamphleteering or cheap propaganda. Of course, we know this is what the NY Times is about; but the stench is getting more disgusting every day.
Here's one for the masthead: All the Horseshit that's fit to Print.
UPDATE: Ishrad Manji argues for stopping this madness in The Australian. It isn't poverty and means; it is the religion, stupid.
UPDATE: Meanwhile, the NYT-owned Boston Globe downplays 9/11, too:
UPDATE: Confederate Yankee asks the AP: When Does a Massacre Matter? (h/t Glenn Reynolds).9/11 is, of course, not a "card" at all, but a devastating attack on the country that despite its horrible toll could have been even worse --far, far worse if the terrorists had been better skilled in their selection of targets and luckier in their logistics that morning. The Boston Globe's headline perfectly conveys the left's understanding of 9/11 --a political event that it fears works for the Republicans and especially Giuliani. The center-right understands 9/11 as the defining moment of our era, and Giuliani's response to it a model of leadership in the still extraordinarily dangerous times in which we live.
The Globe's headline should evoke condemnation of the paper's relentless agenda-journalism which now extends to the characterization of a national emergency as a part of a poker game. We'll see.
UPDATE: Glenn has more good links on this outrage here. Follow them.
UPDATE: Michael Yon comments on his own (ignored by the media) dispatch from Iraq:
Here is Yon's original dispatch. Read it and weep for the Iraqis whose lives and fortunes the PC Media is casting aside.On this question of media selectivity, the blogosphere has become incensed that big media mostly ignored the murders, especially given that there are reporters currently in Baqubah. Newsbusters and countless others are on it. More disturbing to many bloggers is that major mainstream players were busted (again) by Pajamas Media just days ago for reporting outright fabrications of a “massacre” that never occurred.
Although I can’t answer to the cause of the problem, I humbly offer permission to media outlets to republish excerpts of the dispatch or the dispatch in its entirety, including my photographs from the story (if used as they are in the dispatch) at no cost during the month of July 2007. I only ask that the site receive proper attribution and that any publication taking me up on the offer email the website with the details.
If much of mainstream media does not recognize barbarity, clearly their readers can and do. Readers throughout the world might consider contacting their local papers and favorite websites with the link to this update. The story is very important in that it is well-documented with photos and video, and the Iraqi and American soldiers who were present are named and easily reachable. Those mainstream reporters currently in Baqubah could readily take up the baton.
Labels: Islamic Fascism, Media Bias, Media War, PC, Terrorism, Thought Police
