The job of the media should be to inform and clarify.
By
sadlerx
on February 18, 2008
However, our mainstream press has been neglecting that responsibility. It now specializes in muddying the waters and journalistic sleight-of-hand. http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-02-14-denmark-unrest_N.htm
When this article mentions "youths", its referring to Muslim youths. The closest the paper comes to defining the nature of the creeps in question was in this passage:
"Some observers said immigrant youths were protesting against perceived police harassment and suggested the reprinting of a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad in Danish newspapers Wednesday, may have aggravated the situation."
If the rioters had been Christians who became violent over abortion, the media not only would have identified them, they would have relished doing so.
Any which way you slice it, Muslim violence is a common theme nowadays, and no amount of burying our heads in the sand will change that fact.
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Discussion (4)
I agree with the claim, but not with the description.
It's a very sadleresque straw man: Claim something that is true, and imbue it with a description full of racist vitriol.
D'A
racist vitriol....Thank you D'A. Patrick, why dont they just say Muslim youths then?
Probably because it's implied and/or obvious to most readers?