Mourning the Parisian Journalists Yet Noticing the Hypocrisy of Western Media ...Nor was the media much interested in a bomb that went off outside the NAACPs Colorado Springs headquarters the same day as they were highlighting the attack in Paris. Colorado Springs is home to some of the most extreme right-wing activists. It was a balding white man who was seen setting the bomb, some reports claim, and so the media described it as an act of a troubled lone individual, rather than as a white right wing Christian fundamentalist terrorist. Few Americans have even heard of this incident. And when the horrific assassinations of 12 media people and the wounding of another 12 media workers resulted in justifiable outrage around the world, did you ever wonder why there wasnt an equal outrage at the tens of thousands of innocent civilians killed by the American intervention in Iraq or the over a million civilians killed by the U.S. in Vietnam, or why President Obama refused to bring to justice the CIA torturers of mostly Muslim prisoners, thereby de facto giving future torturers the message that they need not even be sorry for their deeds (indeed, former Vice President Cheney boldly asserted he would order that kind of torture again without thinking twice)? To read more, click on the link below.
Posted on: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 18:14:36 +0000