Hypocrisy of the US media in tsunami coverage?

[nascarblue]

The U.S. corporate media coverage of the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster, for most Americans, was shocking, and emotional. Empathic Americans, with the knowledge that a terrible natural disaster of huge significant to hundreds of thousands people had occurred, wanted to help in any way they could. Church groups held prayer sessions for the victims, and the Red Cross received an upsurge of donations.

The U.S. corporate media coverage of the tsunami disaster exposes a huge hypocrisy in the U.S. press. Over 100,000 civilians have died since the beginning of the U.S. invasion and hundreds of thousands more are homeless and weakened. In late October 2004 the British Lancet medical journal published a scientific survey of households in Iraq that calculated over 100,000 civilians, mostly women and children, have died from war related causes. The most common cause of death was aerial bombing. Recent civilian deaths in Fallujah would undoubtedly add significantly to the 100k total.

The Iraqi word for disaster is "museeba". Surly the lose of life from war in Iraq is as significant a meseeba as the Indian Ocean tsunami, yet where is the US corporate media coverage of thousands of dead and homeless? Where are the live aerial TV shots of the disaster zones and the up-close photos of the victims? Where are the survivor stories – the miracle child who lived thought a building collapsed by U.S. bombs and rescued by neighbors? Where are the government official’s press releases of regret and sorrow? Where is the international coalition for relief of civilians in Iraq and the upsurge in donations for Red Cross intervention? Would not Americans, if they knew, be just as caring about Iraqi deaths as they are for the victims of the tsunami?


http://www.guerrillanews.com/articles/article.php?id=1032

[SHRED]

1. Too messy

Besides the corporate media is making money off the "war".

You did notice how the first reports from the tsunami were of white victims didn't you? The little boy, the tourists, etc...
Start calling them the "Corporate Racist Media".

[Ilsa]

2. Oh no! That's different!

Don't you know that those Iraqis had to die for their "freedom"? At least, that's how I've heard Repukes justify it.

[SHRED]

3. Like the "Crusades"

"Kill the body to save the soul."

Sickening bastards aren't they?

:puke: :puke: :puke:

[nascarblue]

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