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Re: Mainstream media rightist bias
By: 90sRetroFan Date: February 27, 2022, 9:44 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/cbs-journalist-apologizes-saying-ukraine-024714455.html
[quote]Nader Issa, a reporter at the Chicago Sun-Times, tweeted,
“If that’s the version where he chooses his words carefully, was
the alternative just going to be ‘these are civilized white
people and not uncivilized brown people.’”[/quote]
Exactly.
[quote]“This type of commentary reflects the pervasive mentality
in Western journalism of normalizing tragedy in parts of the
world such as the Middle East, Africa, South Asia and Latin
America,” the group said. “It dehumanizes and renders their
experience with war as somehow normal and expected.”[/quote]
It's not even about which part of the world. As I have
repeatedly pointed out in the past, when a "white" is murdered
in South Africa, Western journalism often covers it, but when a
"non-white" is murdered in South Africa (ie. the exact SAME part
of the world), Western journalism almost always does not cover
it. This is what has led to the impression (which rightists then
amplify) that "whites" are disproportionately murdered in South
Africa, when in reality 99% of murder victims in South Africa
are "non-white".
HTML http://aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/nelson-mandela-rip/comment-page-1/#comment-36246
[quote]there are crime victims of all ethnicities in South
Africa, yet the international news (owned by you-know-who)
almost never even reports the crimes where the victims are
“non-white”. Do you ever wonder what they are trying to portray
with this kind of selective reporting?
Do you honestly believe it is safer to be a “black” South
African than a “white” South African? Can you honestly say that
if you were going to magically wake up tomorrow as a random
South African, would you – in the interest of your own security
– choose to wake up as a “black” South African?[/quote]
HTML http://aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/nelson-mandela-rip/comment-page-1/#comment-36254
[quote]An average of 50 people are murdered in South Africa per
day. That means roughly 18000 per year, or 360000 in twenty
years. In the same time, the high estimate for rural “white”
murder victims is roughly 3000. To find out why I say “high
estimate”, go here:
HTML http://www.listconspiracy.blogspot.com/
Nevertheless, let’s use the 3000 figure for now.
3000/360000 = less than 1%
yet these are the stories that get all the coverage in the Daily
Mail etc.. “Non-white” murder victims are 99% of murder victims
in South Africa, but nowhere near 99% of stories about South
African murders in any international newspaper. [/quote]
HTML http://aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/nelson-mandela-rip/comment-page-1/#comment-36313
[quote]I am not making a point about the % of murder victims
compared to their % ethnic demographic. I am making a point
about the disparity between the % of “black” (or, for that
matter, “coloured”) murder victims and the % of NEWS REPORTS
COVERING THEIR MURDERS. They are definitely the majority of
murder victims, but definitely not the majority of news coverage
concerning murders in South Africa, which only ever seems
interested in reporting on “white” murder victims. This
indicates news bias to portray a picture that only “white”
people are on the receiving end of crime.[/quote]
Back to the original article:
[quote]David Sakvarelidze, the former deputy prosecutor general
of Ukraine, said in a BBC interview that “it’s very emotional
for me because I see European people with blue eyes and blonde
hair being killed” by Russia’s assault.[/quote]
The funny thing is, Sakvarelidze himself is not even blonde (his
face shape is what I expected, though):
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Why does a non-blonde feel especially emotional about blondes
being killed?
Anyway, as I was saying here:
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Re: Mainstream media rightist bias
By: 90sRetroFan Date: February 28, 2022, 8:35 pm
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HTML https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/02/27/media-ukraine-offensive-comparisons/
[quote]Some academics have noted that in certain French media
outlets, Ukrainians fleeing their country were “refugees,” but
Afghans doing the same in August and September were
“migrants.”[/quote]
There is a term for this type of double-standard.
[quote]Russia’s invasion of Ukraine shocked the world as the
largest cross-border European conflict in decades. But some
observers see a troubling tone creeping into how some media
outlets have attempted to contextualize it, describing Ukraine
as more “civilized” than other countries, such as Iraq,
Afghanistan or Syria.[/quote]
In reality, of course:
[img]
HTML https://image.slidesharecdn.com/characteristicsofcivilization-140901150406-phpapp02/95/world-history-characteristics-of-civilization-module-1-4-638.jpg?cb=1409583904[/img]
"Ukraine is more civilized" = "Trump won the 2020 election"
[quote]Such coverage resorts to “Orientalist concepts of
‘civilization’ that have long been present in European colonial
discourse,” said Denijal Jegic, a postdoctoral researcher in
communication and multimedia journalism at Lebanese American
University in Beirut, in an interview. “This implicitly suggests
that war is a natural phenomenon in places outside of the
Euro-American sphere, and the Middle East in particular, and
that war would take place because of a lack of civilization,
rather than due to unjust geopolitical power distribution or
foreign intervention.”
...
Philip Seib, professor emeritus of journalism and public
diplomacy at the University of Southern California and author of
“Information at War: Journalism, Disinformation, and Modern
Warfare,” said such disparities in reporting have historical
roots. “One of the most striking examples came in the 1990s,
when tens of thousands of White people were dying in the Balkans
and hundreds of thousands of Black people were dying in Rwanda,
and the Balkans got much more coverage,” Seib said.
[/quote]
Yes, this is another good example.
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Re: Mainstream media rightist bias
By: guest55 Date: March 2, 2022, 2:05 pm
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Hypocritical Media Coverage of Ukraine vs. the Middle East
[quote]'This is not a developing Third World nation. This is
Europe' — This is how some media commentators talk about
European refugees vs. Middle Eastern refugees (hint: it's full
of hypocrisy)[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z9UyPurVok
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Re: Mainstream media rightist bias
By: 90sRetroFan Date: March 6, 2022, 2:22 am
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HTML https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2022/03/347376/good-refugees-bad-refugees-the-war-on-ukraine-and-western-media-racism
[quote]World public opinion was shocked when a reporter from CBS
said that Ukraine is “European, therefore, civilized”
insinuating that the Ukrainians deserve, therefore, special
treatment and unique refugee crisis management.
The same reporter added, while warning that he was choosing his
words and was being careful, “this is not Iraq nor Afghanistan.”
The Afro-American comedian, Trevor Noah, joked about this (in
one of his moments of black humor) wondering: “he said all of
this while choosing his words! Oh, my God.”
If he were not being careful nor choosing his words, what would
he have said? Would he say, “these are white, blue eyed,
civilized Europeans, unlike the uncouth and backward colored
Iraqis and Afghanis who don’t know how to be targets of US, Al
Qaeda and Taliban fire, and can never be good refugees?” Maybe
not, but the moment was eerie—of someone trying not to be racist
only to end up saying the most blatant racist thing.
...
The CBS reporter was not alone. Some French commentators joined
the chorus of those saying, “this is Ukraine,” “this is
civilization,” “this is Europe;” you can almost hear their
thought: “when you are blue-eyed you are a better refugee.”
...
Racism shows itself not in normal situations when people
painstakingly hide their real attitudes but in dire situations,
i.e. when the specter of war is at the doorstep of Europe again,
something unseen since WWII. When fear and anguish overcome
reason, the demons of bigotry find their way to the surface.
The Hungarian photographer could not help but kick a Syrian
refugee a few years ago although her role was to report an event
rather than prevent it. In the heat of action, visceral
reactions overcome calm and professional attitudes.[/quote]
We had a blog post about this:
HTML http://aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/the-face-of-identitarianism/
Do you think she would have similarly kicked and tripped "white"
Ukrainian refugees? If you do, stop lying to yourself.
[quote]If reporters, journalists, and commentators lead the way
in reproducing an orientalist rhetoric of racism and
ethnocentrism, what will the layman say or do?[/quote]
Physically throw "non-white" refugees off trains and buses? Oh
wait.....
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Re: Mainstream media rightist bias
By: 90sRetroFan Date: March 10, 2022, 8:45 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/ukraine-war-bias-coverage-russia-putin-193028640.html
[quote]'Utterly degrading': Ukraine war coverage reveals
devastating truth about which lives are globally valued, expert
says
Amid the coverage of attacks on Ukraine by Russian forces, those
with ties to other countries in conflict are raising questions
about inequalities in public response.
A series of clips are circulating on social media in which
broadcasters and interviewees on major platforms make statements
that seemingly paint Ukrainian victims of tragedy as more
sympathetic than non-European victims.
HTML https://twitter.com/AlanRMacLeod/status/1499880226922319873
[quote][Thread] The most racist Ukraine coverage on TV News.
1. The BBC - “It’s very emotional for me because I see European
people with blue eyes and blonde hair being killed” - Ukraine’s
Deputy Chief Prosecutor, David Sakvarelidze
2. CBS News
"This isn't Iraq or Afghanistan...This is a relatively
civilized, relatively European city" - CBS foreign correspondent
Charlie D’Agata
3. Al-Jazeera
"What's compelling is looking at them, the way they are dressed.
These are prosperous, middle-class people. These are not
obviously refugees trying to get away from the Middle East...or
North Africa. They look like any European family that you'd live
next door to."
4. BFM TV (France)
"We are in the 21st century, we are in a European city and we
have cruise missile fire as though we were in Iraq or
Afghanistan, can you imagine!?”
5. The Daily Telegraph
This time, war is wrong because the people look like us and have
Instagram and Netflix accounts. It's not in a poor, remote
country any more. - Daniel Hannan
6. ITV (UK)
"The unthinkable has happened...This is not a developing, third
world nation; this is Europe!"
7. BFM TV (France) (again)
"It's an important question. We’re not talking here about
Syrians fleeing...We're talking about Europeans."
8. If you speak French, sample from the racism buffet on offer.
[video]
9. Guy on Spanish TV news channel La Sexta:
"These aren't like the other children that we've become
accustomed to see suffer on TV, these children are blond with
blue eyes, [so] this is very important"
10. Star UK media personality Matthew Wright on ITV's flagship
show, "This Morning":
"The US has used [a thermobaric bomb] before in Afghanistan. But
the idea of it being used in Europe is
stomach-churning."[/quote][/quote]
And some claim Eurocentrism is something that only exists in
paranoid leftist imagination.....
[quote]“To me, it’s a very shocking contrast to the
representation of war in other places,” Boler told Yahoo News
Canada. Boler said she is “acutely aware” of how different
periods of media representation have changed the public’s access
to war, and shaped the view of the public.
"The people who are saying these things seem to be marked by
their own racial identity and privilege. I find it really
shocking that commentators would make these kinds of statements
that are so utterly degrading to the tragedies of what has
happened to people in other war-torn areas, most recently Syria,
Iraq, and Afghanistan."
Boler added that the double standard can be seen beyond the
headlines. “We might even think about how that perception, or
that racism, is infusing the global response at the national
level, in terms of nations that are stepping up to take action.”
“It’s not just at the level of individuals and individual
reporters whose racism is being exposed, but also essentially
whose life is valued at the level of international global
political discourse,” she said.[/quote]
Most importantly, we must stop thinking that education will
solve the problem:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/superiority-cannot-be-taught/
Want to end racism? Eliminate all racist bloodlines. It is that
simple. When are we ready to start?
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Re: Mainstream media rightist bias
By: guest55 Date: March 17, 2022, 1:05 pm
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[quote]Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) spoke out about the relative lack
of news coverage devoted to WNBA star Brittney Griner’s ongoing
detention in Russia. Griner has been held in Russia for at least
three weeks on drug charges. She was reportedly arrested at a
Russian airport in mid-February after cannabis oil products were
detected in her luggage.
According to the NY Times, Russian authorities are exploring
criminal charges against Griner that, if convicted, could carry
a 10-year prison sentence. Griner’s arrest coincided with
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the ensuing U.S. decision to
lobby harsh diplomatic & economic sanctions against Russia,
further complicating efforts to bring her home safely and
promptly. On March 17, Griner's 'period of detention' was
extended until May 19 by a Moscow court[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxWwTQLoS89Y716BWNavR6RRas6P4kFvIO
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Re: Mainstream media rightist bias
By: guest55 Date: April 7, 2022, 10:54 pm
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Doctored :D
[quote]Fox News wants to doctor news footage to make their
point? Two can play that game.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6wQ7bTRgTA
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Re: Mainstream media rightist bias
By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 17, 2022, 8:35 pm
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Re: Mainstream media rightist bias
By: guest55 Date: May 19, 2022, 10:20 pm
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Muslim TV hosts EXPOSE clear DOUBLE STANDARD in recent Buffalo
shooting
[quote]MSNBC hosts Mehdi Hasan and Ayman Mohyeldin shared their
thoughts on the double standard exposed by the recent hate crime
in Buffalo and explore Tucker Carlson's culpability in the
crime. Francis Maxwell reacts.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbYBCa9XIyc
It's OK to be a "white" terrorist on rightist media.
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Re: Mainstream media rightist bias
By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 20, 2022, 1:09 am
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBYFFiReypA
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