While Old Media Obsesses over Haditha, Al Qaeda Massacre Gets the Silent Treatment

Photo of Tom Blumer.

(WARNING: Link contains graphic and unsettling pictures) Michael Yon reported a massacre committed by Al Qaeda that wiped out a village on the outskirts of Baqubah, Iraq just after midnight on July 1.

Matt Hurley at Weapons of Mass Discussion had this to say yesterday in reaction:

If American media fails to cover this with the same amount of gusto that they have pursued Haditha and Abu Ghraib, they will be demonstrating their preference for whom they wish to win this conflict. The press has to tell the story that evil really does exist in this world. Imagine if the story of the Holocaust was never told because the media was only interested in reporting Allied atrocities. Yes, by failing to treat this war objectively, the media does indeed enable massacres such as this one and history will judge the coverage of this war very harshly.

Robin Boyd noticed the lack of Old Media interest in a NewsBusters post yesterday. Almost 18 hours later, the fact is that Old Media is still ignoring Yon's dispatch:

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The three items of the 10 listed not included in the above picutre also do not relate to the Al Qaeda-committed massacre.

That is indeed quite a contrast to the Old Media treatment of the Haditha situation:

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I'd say 81 stories represents a bit of the "gusto" Hurley was referring to.

Can anyone come up with a reason why I should believe that Matt Hurley is wrong about whose side Old Media is on?

Cross-posted at BizzyBlog.com.

—Tom Blumer is president of a training and development company in Mason, Ohio, and is a contributing editor to NewsBusters


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the way i see it:every time t

the way i see it:

every time the MSM ignores an important item like this another tenth of a percent of their circulation goes away.

and they wonder why they are slowly dying on the vine.

C

Imagine, just imagine where w

Imagine, just imagine where we would be right now, in this war, and especially in Iraq, if the MSM had consciously chosen to report on the war in a positive manner, one that supported Bush's decision to oust Saddam and continue to fight the insurgency, that made it a priority to highlight progress instead of ONLY reporting about the down side.  An MSM that highlighted the reopening of hospitals and schools, the rebuilding of water treatment facilities and power plants, the opening of new businesses, and highlighting citizens that are GLAD we are there, and on and on.  The MSM has become expert at reporting in a negative way..  where would we be right now, all other things being the same, if ONLY the MSM had chosen to be positive, supportive, pro-American.  Where would we be? 

With a Republican majority.

With a Republican majority.

The MSM met their objective.

For the MSM in Europe and the

For the MSM in Europe and the US the deaths of Muslims is a matter of concern only if they are killed by non-Muslims. 

That is true. That could also

That is true. That could also be said of 'blacks' and other minorities. A trend perhaps?

Trend??!! Say it ain't so!

Sarge, I can give you some examples of how the MSM picks and chooses what it wants to elevate from the local to the national level.  It almost always picks those stories which reflect their liberal outlook and opinions.

The first involves the lack of national reporting on the torture and killing of a young white couple by a gang of blacks right here in the good ol' USA.  The crime occurred in Knoxville, Tennessee.

"What happened to Channon Christian, 21, and Christopher Newsom, 23, is almost too horrible to contemplate.  The Knoxville, Tenn., couple fell victim to four crazed young criminals during a carjacking. The perpetrators allegedly kidnapped Christian and Newsome and brutally raped both of them before killing them.  Newsom was shot, his body burned and dumped beside the railroad tracks. Christian was strangled and left in garbage bags."

Contrast that with the national reporting of the kidnapping and torture of a black man by a gang of whites in Texas: remember the poor man that was dragged behind the truck?  Not too mention the shameful use of that situation by the Dems for political purposes.

For a more recent case, look how the media went after the Duke lacrosse team.  Has anyone heard any of them apologize for their awful handling of the situation?  Ask Richard Jewel about how the MSM handles it when they smear someone.

Another case of selective reporting involved the rape and torture of a young boy by two gay pedophiles.  It happened shortly after that unfortunate young man, Matt Sheppard was kidnapped, beaten, and tied to a fence and left to die (and did).  Do you remember all of the hysteria over "homophobia" generated by the media on Sheppard's killing?  Where was the media outrage over the turtore and killing of this boy by these two animals?  The buried the story  because it suited their purposes to do so.

In all of these cases, it is a media obsessed with its self-elected role as the arbitor decideing to what news furthers their views on what is culturally and socially correct.

How will Americans ever kno

How will Americans ever know these kind of horrific things happen if it weren't for NB? Too bad more people don't come here, they'd be much better informed.

Morals....? Who needs those?

But in the grand scheme of things, how many read NB?

 I've tried to get my parents into the information age besides the MSM but they're not budging.  They get their info from Brian Williams every night at 6:30 and maybe once in a while from Fox earlier in the day (although I've yet to see this story on FOX). 

Unfortunately, I think we all know who the MSM wants to win this war and it's not us.  They ridicule those who serve and while they feign respect can't wait for one person to screw up and make a mistake so they can spend days, weeks, months what have you on that story.  My friends, if we're waiting for this story to be told by the MSM we may be very old people. 

The MSM is so busy carrying

The MSM is so busy carrying the Islamists water for them to notice how much they're harming their own country. Anything George Bush is for, they're against. The Islamists couldn't have better accomplices. The liberal media is totally invested in George Bush's defeat and by extention losing the war on terror. It's absolute cluelessness.

My plea to fellow Muslims: you must renounce terror

As the bombers return to Britain, Hassan Butt, who was once a member of radical group Al-Muhajiroun, raising funds for extremists and calling for attacks on British citizens, explains why he was wrong

Sunday July 1, 2007
The Observer

When I was still a member of what is probably best termed the British Jihadi Network, a series of semi-autonomous British Muslim terrorist groups linked by a single ideology, I remember how we used to laugh in celebration whenever people on TV proclaimed that the sole cause for Islamic acts of terror like 9/11, the Madrid bombings and 7/7 was Western foreign policy.

By blaming the government for our actions, those who pushed the 'Blair's bombs' line did our propaganda work for us. More important, they also helped to draw away any critical examination from the real engine of our violence: Islamic theology.

LINK: http://observer.guar...

Great Story

Great story, thank-you for the link. Those that ARE paying attention KNOW this has nothing to do with government policies and everything to do with religion, religious belief, value system, and lifestyle choices.

EVERYONE in America needs t

EVERYONE in America needs to see and hear about these atrocities. EVERYONE needs to know that people like Pelosi and the Clintons and Edwards and Obama and Murtha are LYING to them to increase their own power and influence.

If a video of a poor unsocialized kid dancing can sweep the Internet, why can't something important do the same?

Kahuna

You have been given the choice between war and dishonor. You have chosen dishonor, and you will have both.

--Winston Churchill to Neville Chamberlain

Great entry..The story by Yon

Great entry..The story by Yon brought tears to my eyes..We are facing the enemy of our time and the media has invested in defeat..(not just the democrats)...We need to have more stories like this come out so we can show the brutality of our enemy and why we ARE THERE!!

The MSM has already declared their allegiance

Not only do they attempt at all chances to paint the terrorists in the best possible light, but they also show their disdain and contempt for the US military. In fact they exhibit the key chatacteristic of prejudice...they always assume the worst about the US military in general unless they have direct personal knowledge of the individuals.

The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic

At least half of the media bi

At least half of the media bias comes from what is not covered.  It's probably more than half...

But if someone said "The Americans did it"

Who would know anything about Scooter Libby? If there was "just a whiff" that "all this was done by Americans" it would be EVERWHERE!!!! The stuff in the UK would slip off the radar.

(Wait, it's Tuesday and it already has.)

Thanks for posting this. I h

Thanks for posting this. I have not seen word one about this story in the media.

"Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him." -Muhammad

Thanks NB for posting this. 

Thanks NB for posting this.  (I alerted Noel to it a couple days ago).

Imagine today's MSM covering WWII ... The fire bombing of Dresden, every miss-placed bomb, mistaken friendly fire episode, how are we treating the German and Japanese detainees all slammed and bammed into the mindset of this country while at war.  Least of all, imagine mass graves, ovens, piles of boney rotting corpses, the walking dead and concentration camps being completely ignored by an industry that touts it is there to inform the people.

We have to search for real news in this war (and what Iran is up to) via sites like Pat Dollard's and Michael Yon's.  Not only that, but we MUST spread those stories to every blog site and person we can.  We owe it to Dollard and Yon, non-commercial reporters ... and most of all we owe it to our troops who are fighting this war, and are beyond pissed at the twisted reporting by the MSM.

Michael Yon, try as he might

Michael Yon, try as he might - bless him - tries to explain the MSM's ignoring of this story.                   Update on “Bless the Beasts and Children”

Baqubah, Iraq

http://www.michaelyon-online.com/wp/update-on-bless-the-beasts-and-children.htm