Interesting article, on our media and the bias they continue to cling to.
It is interesting as the author points out, how the media continues to compare apples and oranges, yet completely miss that fact.
In that way they are deceiving themselves to the point that apples are oranges….
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Criticism of Islam – media’s ‘hypersensitive’ topic
A conservative media watchdog says the recent coverage of the threatened Quran burnings by a small Florida church demonstrates that the mainstream liberal media have a “hypersensitivity” to criticism of Islam.
In the end, Pastor Terry Jones of the tiny Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville called off last Saturday’s planned 9/11 anniversary Quran burning and the controversy quickly faded. But in the days leading up to anticipated event, the media went on a feeding frenzy covering the controversy, from the standpoint of how offended Muslims would be if copies of the Quran were incinerated.
Tim Graham, director of media analysis at the Media Research Center, says the media clearly made a mountain out of a mole hill on the story.
“This is a story in which they would usually say, ‘Why would we pay attention to one pastor with a flock of 50?'” he states. “I think it really shows the news media today have a hypersensitivity to criticism of Islam.”
Graham contrasts that coverage with how the media reports attacks on anything Christian as a free-speech right.
“And I think what’s missing here is any notion that Christians are superior to Muslims, in that there are not riots in the streets [in reaction],” he suggests. “You can demean Jesus on South Park [but] you cannot demean Muhammad — and the news media continue to miss the difference.”
Graham says it is amazing that even the threat of burning Qurans created such a worldwide outrage.
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