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[en] Highlighting Western Victims While Ignoring Victims of Western Violence

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Christoph Weigel

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Sonntag, 27.03.2016

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Greenwald's point on biased media coverage of the victims of terror:

The point, as always, isn’t justification: It is always morally unjustified to deliberately target civilians with violence. Nor does it prove that the bombing of ISIS in Iraq and Syria is unjustified or should cease. The point, instead, is that the war framework in which much of this violence takes place — one side that declares itself at war and uses violence as part of that war is inevitably attacked by the other side that it targets — is completely suppressed by one-sided media coverage that prefers a self-flattering, tribalistic cartoon narrative.

[en] Highlighting Western Victims While Ignoring Victims of Western Violence

Quelle: Glenn Greenwald EN theintercept.com

Highlighting Western Victims While Ignoring Victims of Western Violence

FOR DAYS NOW, American cable news has broadcast non-stop coverage of the horrific attack in Brussels. Viewers repeatedly heard from witnesses and from the wounded. Video was shown in a loop of the terror and panic when the bombs exploded...

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