June 3, 2006
Haditha: Comments
Personally, I'd like to see more like this on blogs:
"A Young Girl Reading" by Fragonard
"Alchemy" by Daniele Anjou (Not sure if this is copyrighted...if you find it is, tell me!!)
Media and Blogging
Posted by Cyrano at June 3, 2006 6:32 PM
Two things stick in my head about Haditha:
1 - Whenever we (being Westerners) screw up in the Arab world, the news coverage is usually about all of the rioting that follows the incident. There wasn't any rioting in Haditha, even though its a "hotbed of terrorism."
2 - Al-Jazeera would never pass up an opportunity to make the West look bad, yet when this occurred, AJ was rathe silent. Why no 24/7 coverage of the allegations?
Two things stick in my head about Haditha:
1 - Whenever we (being Westerners) screw up in the Arab world, the news coverage is usually about all of the rioting that follows the incident. There wasn't any rioting in Haditha, even though its a "hotbed of terrorism."
2 - Al-Jazeera would never pass up an opportunity to make the West look bad, yet when this occurred, AJ was rathe silent. Why no 24/7 coverage of the allegations?
Posted by: TrekMedic251 at June 4, 2006 11:26 AMYeah. Twenty one dead today by a terrorist. Nobody involved will ever face ethics training or an inquest -- or, sadly, much disapprobation from the Western left.
I don't think any of us say this to excuse. If guilt is proven I hope punishment ensues. But the capacity for media to ignore perspective is disturbing.
Posted by: jk at June 4, 2006 11:35 AM | What do you think? [2]