March 16, 2019
EMT 03/15/19 Media Enforced Apathy Edition
—krakatoa
Based on the lessons the media has drummed into me, I'm having a hard time figuring out why I should particularly care about a mosque shooting in NZ.
Hasn't the media signaled to us that religious targets of violence are non-news, by way of its utter blackout of countless Christian church massacres around the world; its disinterest in the massacres of Christians and Jews at the hands of Muslims; its "boys will be boys" approach to Muslim on Muslim violence?
At the very least, isn't it just a local news story?
No, at long last the media got their white whale, and they are going to peel every last bit of meat off that carcass they can.
Posted by krakatoa at 06:00 AM
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