Unbelievable. Our media absolutely sucks. The selective journalism CNN does is so heavily biased that Americans simply do not hear about half the events the rest of the world hears about, let alone get both sides of the story. That is poor journalism. My point will follow:
There was a movie, I forget the name of it, where every male Muslim in America was detained after terrorist threats. It caused huge protests as the very fundamentals of America were threatened (as it was during the Japanese Internments of WWII). It made for a great plot, but was fairly unrealistic.
Now, 500-700 arrests are made in Los Angelas. The people arrested were Muslims from 10 Muslim countries required by a recent US Law to register before December 16th. Once they complied, they were detained. 500-700 arrests - all Muslim males over the age of 16. All because they complied with the law. Okay, regardless of whether they deserved to be arrested, or the method of arrests, or even the registration law itself was not discussed, CNN did not even REPORT on this.
Find out some details on BBC where it made the front page of Americas News - and front page as a link on the main news section. 500-700 men arrested all with the same religion is big news ANYWHERE.
So I go to CNN to find the American defense or explanation of the incident and lo and behold, CNN DOES NOT EVEN REPORT IT! 500-700 people arrested of the same religion and the largest new agency in the States does not report it. On the 3rd article of the WEST section of the US News, there is something that mentions the PROTESTS by Muslims following the incident. They reported on the PROTESTS. Unbelievable. They did not mention how many people were arrested, why they were arrested, in which manner they were arrested, the obvious similarities between everyone who was arrested.
Ok, now before you reply, I don't want this to turn into whether or not Muslims are terrorists, or whether or not the registration law is constitutional, or anything of that nature. I want to discuss the selective media we as Americans face.
There was a movie, I forget the name of it, where every male Muslim in America was detained after terrorist threats. It caused huge protests as the very fundamentals of America were threatened (as it was during the Japanese Internments of WWII). It made for a great plot, but was fairly unrealistic.
Now, 500-700 arrests are made in Los Angelas. The people arrested were Muslims from 10 Muslim countries required by a recent US Law to register before December 16th. Once they complied, they were detained. 500-700 arrests - all Muslim males over the age of 16. All because they complied with the law. Okay, regardless of whether they deserved to be arrested, or the method of arrests, or even the registration law itself was not discussed, CNN did not even REPORT on this.
Find out some details on BBC where it made the front page of Americas News - and front page as a link on the main news section. 500-700 men arrested all with the same religion is big news ANYWHERE.
So I go to CNN to find the American defense or explanation of the incident and lo and behold, CNN DOES NOT EVEN REPORT IT! 500-700 people arrested of the same religion and the largest new agency in the States does not report it. On the 3rd article of the WEST section of the US News, there is something that mentions the PROTESTS by Muslims following the incident. They reported on the PROTESTS. Unbelievable. They did not mention how many people were arrested, why they were arrested, in which manner they were arrested, the obvious similarities between everyone who was arrested.
Ok, now before you reply, I don't want this to turn into whether or not Muslims are terrorists, or whether or not the registration law is constitutional, or anything of that nature. I want to discuss the selective media we as Americans face.