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Mainstream Media don't report atrocities against particular individuals, or groups

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Deuce said:
Did you honestly make an effort to find it?
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We're talking mainstream, remember? What more effort do you need than google?

Have you even tried?
 
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tosca1 said:
We're talking mainstream, remember? What more effort do you need than google?

Have you even tried?
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No, that was my question. Have you? It is your thread, after all. You said you "must have missed it." How many minutes did you spend searching CNN/MSNBC/etc?
 
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In the last week, a pastors wife was murdered and raped, a 9 year old was executed in Chicago, a 20 year old was gunned down as a bystander in a gang related shooting in Chicago, 16 people were shot in a public park in NOLA, and throughout the month of November 24 people have died in Chicago.

And yeah...those stories arent worthy of headline news.
 
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Deuce said:
No, that was my question. Have you? It is your thread, after all. You said you "must have missed it." How many minutes did you spend searching CNN/MSNBC/etc?
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Like I said, how much effort does it take to do google? I purposefully looked for mainstream media when I did it. No luck.
Go ahead....try it. Google away.

Since you contradicted what I've claimed - I'm asking you, have you tried? Did you do a simple google? Show me!

The onus is on you to prove me wrong, after all you're the one who challenged what I've said!

Show me a mainstream media that carries the atrocity done on the Christian boy! Link please.
 
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VanceMack said:
In the last week, a pastors wife was murdered and raped, a 9 year old was executed in Chicago, a 20 year old was gunned down as a bystander in a gang related shooting in Chicago, 16 people were shot in a public park in NOLA, and throughout the month of November 24 people have died in Chicago.

And yeah...those stories arent worthy of headline news.
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Who's saying they're not worthy of headline news?
 
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tosca1 said:
A 5 year old Christian boy cut in half by ISIS, or the Austrian girl who joined ISIS (named poster girl for ISIS), and later was beaten to death when caught trying to escape.....you don't see these kind of reports on mainstream media.

Why is that?
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The American news media doesn't want to focus in on things like that because it might spark anti-Muslim sentiments... Besides, it would also reflect poorly on the Obama Administration, and they cant have that.

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The MSM isn't going to do stories on every death. There are plenty of ISIS killings to make stories on.
 
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Grim17 said:
The American news media doesn't want to focus in on things like that because it might spark anti-Muslim sentiments... Besides, it would also reflect poorly on the Obama Administration, and they cant have that.

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Is it on Fox News?
 
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MrPeanut said:
The MSM isn't going to do stories on every death. There are plenty of ISIS killings to make stories on.
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Bingo. There have been 1000s of stories on Christians being slaughtered by ISIS. If they don't give 1-2 cases worldwide exposure, it's supposedly a sign of bias. As if the atrocities committed by ISIS had come to the light through anything other than the hundreds of reporters risking their lives to report what is going on. These connoisseurs of the media always make me laugh.
 
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tosca1 said:
A 5 year old Christian boy cut in half by ISIS, or the Austrian girl who joined ISIS (named poster girl for ISIS), and later was beaten to death when caught trying to escape.....you don't see these kind of reports on mainstream media.

Why is that?
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I had missed the boy. But the girl was widely enough reported in Europe.
Were there YouTube vids?

But I have found that the selection of news is quite different from 1 to country and from one news carrier to the next. Most interesting for a view and opinion on foreign affairs is the systematic difference between national reporting in the various countries. If one excludes the media dominantly controlled by the respective governments like RT and a number of things out of China etc that focus on propaganda, one finds that even in countries that would normally be considered liberal (original sense of the term) the government influence is noticeable albeit often with a less aggressive approach but definite goal of harmonizing the opinions. For an English speaker the opportunities for information are much better than in most other languages, as much of the major international media is in English and competes for attention. The result is that one can find evidence presented and opinion argued by almost every major actor in international politics.
 
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MaggieD said:
I sure noticed the last one you mention. All OVER the UK press. Nothing here. I trust our media less and less. I don't have an answer. My instincts tell me they are being quashed. But I just can't believe that answer quite yet. Hope this thread gets legs. It'll be interesting to get others perspectives.

Good thread.
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Or as in this case, the Europeans are alerted to a problem they had been trying to ignore and now are playing catch-up for their public. There is also a more purposeful intent in reporting the atrocities right now, as the elites in Europe are trying to sway their publics to support engagement. This is especially noticeable here in Germany, where the government has finally come out of its corner. It has admitted that Germany has been free riding in international security and is trying to find ways that it can assist without losing the popular vote after decades of propaganda explaining why it would be evil to help one's allies in military engagement.
 
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tosca1 said:
And yet I see air time devoted to what is trivial stuffs.
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I always find it weird in a world with so many problems that the media spend so much time with soccer scores.
 
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joG said:
I always find it weird in a world with so many problems that the media spend so much time with soccer scores.
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......or how wonderful that a granny was able to recycle corks......or we now have a talking Barbie doll.......or child with cystic fibrosis got a date with an astronaut (like, how many sick kids have wishes?).......and yesterday, the camp-out for Black Friday sales to be the first one to go in.....and just right now, the fist fights over Black Friday sales (which they'd also featured last year), with CTV newscaster smugly joking, "We, Canadians, don't do that!"
which btw someone also quipped last year.

Talk about stale.
 
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tosca1 said:
A 5 year old Christian boy cut in half by ISIS, or the Austrian girl who joined ISIS (named poster girl for ISIS), and later was beaten to death when caught trying to escape.....you don't see these kind of reports on mainstream media.

Why is that?
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So how did you learn about these incidents?
 
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tosca1 said:
A 5 year old Christian boy cut in half by ISIS, or the Austrian girl who joined ISIS (named poster girl for ISIS), and later was beaten to death when caught trying to escape.....you don't see these kind of reports on mainstream media.

Why is that?
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They're two small incidents in huge number of outrageous acts, and mainstream media is not necessarily on the Christian grape vine where the story of the boy is found:

5-Year-Old Christian Boy Cut in Half by ISIS Terrorists

The girl's story is on they NY Daily News and some others, but again, they are assuredly not the only children that have suffered such fates. So I wouldn't blame the media.
 
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Cardinal said:
So how did you learn about these incidents?
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Surely, not from mainstream media!
 
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tosca1 said:
Surely, not from mainstream media!
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Why are you being evasive about where you first saw these stories? Seems like a very reasonable question to me.
 
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Cardinal said:
Why are you being evasive about where you first saw these stories? Seems like a very reasonable question to me.
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When one of the posters brought up the story (with photo of the girl), I checked out our mainstream news channels in Canada (CTV and CBC) - these would be like your CNN (24/7 news)....nothing came up about her.

I googled to see what other mainstream media carries it (like major newspapers too)....but there was none. I even told the poster about that, and he told me that's it's new - the news just came out. So I did the same search the next day (thinking maybe I just missed it). It's not anywhere in mainstream media in Canada. I don't think it's anywhere on CNN and other major news outlet in the US, too....

I forgot what source I found but it's not a familiar media. You can check the link provided....
 
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Deuce said:
Every single time some right-winger proclaims "MAINSTREAM MEDIA WONT REPORT ___," I find exactly that thing in every media outlet I check. In ten seconds.
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Same with left-wingers.

The mainstream media reports on everything, however, not everything is front page news.

It's there if you look for it. And by look for it, I mean use google and scroll down the first page of search results.
 
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These killings are rampant.

The MSM doesn't care.
 
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Erod said:
These killings are rampant.

The MSM doesn't care.
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You know, we're all, like, super aware that ISIS is awful, right?
 
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Cardinal said:
You know, we're all, like, super aware that ISIS is awful, right?
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Obviously, but the issue has more to do with acknowledging the persecution of Christians by Islamists.

As we have seen by some participating in this thread, far too many people have no actual ideology other than being against whatever they are told is "right wing", and so they fail to acknowledge this basic truth.
 
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Gardener said:
Obviously, but the issue has more to do with acknowledging the persecution of Christians by Islamists.

As we have seen by some participating in this thread, far too many people have no actual ideology other than being against whatever they are told is "right wing", and so they fail to acknowledge this basic truth.
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I wouldn't file these under "persecution" as outright murder, and as far as that goes the murder of 120 Parisians got far more press than the steady drum-beat toll of Muslim-on-Muslim murders.
 
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Erod said:
These killings are rampant.

The MSM doesn't care.
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When in doubt, blame the media. If only we KNEW, everything would be different!

Given the attitudes of many posters here about Muslims, I'm surprised there's not more encouraging them to kill each other.
 
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Right now the agenda is labeling the whole Republican party as a hate group. Who cares what ISIS is doing?
 
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