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Originally Posted by CaptainYooh
That's one take. Another take: it is much easier and safer for all media to take side against Israel than taking sides in Muslim-only conflicts. Doing the latter potentially infuriates Sunni or Shia Muslims on the other side and can result in media offices bombed and journalists killed. Doing the former unites all two billion of them in their righteous rage and carries no physical risk. Relatively easy choice for the majority, I'd say.
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I would say the media has been very biased in their approach to covering these events, right up until this past weekend. It is pretty obvious the bias our media is going to maintain toward Israel, so you know it must be pretty bad when even our media is being critical of the state of Israel. That's even with a massive imbalance in the influence over our media systems that Jews have versus Muslims.
Is it ironic that we don't see the coverage of these engagements in the Muslim world where atrocities are happening or just a strategy? Don't put a face to the humanity of the affected people and make people stay locked in on their stereotypes of what Muslims are like. Out of sight, out of mind? If the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word Muslim or see someone in a hijab is terrorist or radical, then you've won the propaganda war. Don't humanize these people so that way you already have your audience believing they are sub-human. Classic propaganda technique?