US Media Blind to American War Carnage
US Media Blind to American War Carnage
On the first day of March 2022, visitors to The New York Times homepage saw a headline across the top of their screens in huge capital letters: ROCKET - Norman Solomon for Antiwar.com Original
This is a bit of a biased source.
Yeah they might be kinda anti war, not sure tho
tl;dr:
ROCKET BARRAGE KILLS CIVILIANS. It was the kind of breaking-news banner headline that could have referred to countless US missile attacks and other military assaults during the previous two decades, telling of civilian deaths in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria and elsewhere. During the months that followed, The New York Times was among thousands of American outlets devoting the kind of news coverage to Russia's war in Ukraine that would have been unthinkable while reporting on US warfare. The US media coverage has been vastly more immediate, graphic, extensive, and outraged about Russia's slaughter than America's slaughter. On the rare occasions when a major US news outlet provided in-depth reporting of civilian deaths caused by American forces, the pieces were usually retrospective, appearing long after the fact, postmortems with little political impact and scant follow-up, hardly making a peep in media echo chambers. When American missiles and gravity bombs hit population centers over the previous two decades, the human tragedies rarely got anything more than short shrift in the US media.
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Odd missed opportunity to include stories about US-caused carnage, no?