Why don't Al Qaeda atrocities get media attention?

[The Avon Lady]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Strange. I read regularly essays and articles in the

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,
Tagesspiegel,
Die Welt,
Focus,
Der Spiegel,
New Yok Post,
Washington Post,
International Herald Tribune,
Guardian,
Independent,
BBC,
Le Monde,
France24,

about atrocities and murderings and in general: violence commited in Afghanistan or Iraq or elsewehre by Al Quaeda, or other factions, but of course: plenty of civilian deaths from US air bombings too.

But WG cannot see islamic terror crimes getting media attention. - Hm. Why am I not surprised.

This whole thread is just another of his usual standard provocations - already to be smelled in his suggestive wording.

Back on topic - hopefully.

I disagree with you, Skybird.

Admittedly, I can only refer to English language media. I find every English language publication you listed - perhaps excluding the NY Post - to underplay Islamic attacks worldwide. That doesn't mean they're unreported, although that, too is often the case. The stories are shoved way back on page 30 in printed versions, barely make the headlines list on their Internet home pages. As for TV, it is often that incidents go completely unreported.

Here's but a most recent example: When Does a Massacre Matter?.

I follow several media watch blogs and reports and this is far far from a unique case. It happens all the time.

Could it be that people don't know what they're missing? Sounds about right to me.

And when these events are reported, they are often reported with a slant (another example from the NY Times)or overshadowed by some other event the media wishes to use as a distraction. Sorry, I can't be bothered to post links to what amount to hundreds of such reports on the media over the last few years. It would make for a great term paper some college student. But it was a cinch posting the links I included above and in previous posts, just a sampling from only very recent events.

That's the way I see it.