Re the US coverage of the 'double tap' bombing that killed 168 people, mostly 7-12yo girls...
https://www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-media-buries-story-of-us?utm_medium=web
"It’s difficult to scientifically measure relative media importance or emphasis, but there are some benchmarks one can use as a reference point for objective media priorities: Sunday Morning News shows, the front page of major newspapers, and Nightly News broadcasts. These aren’t exact metrics, but they’re a useful window into corporate media priorities, not just what is
covered but what is highlighted, blared at media consumers, what is deemed worthy of
national attention.
Using these as a guide for what US media finds important, it’s clear that the US-Israeli airstrike on a girls’ school in Minab, which, as of now,
has the exact same death count as
the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, is of little importance.
The February 28 US-Israeli attack did not merit a single front-page story from February 28 to March 4 in The
New York Times,
The Wash
ington Post or The
Wall Street Journal. These outlets did cover it, but relegated the story to the back pages, as in A11 for The Times. It was an afterthought to a much grander narrative of “Decapitation strikes” and “Iranian counterattacks”."
If 168 people, overwhelmingly little girls, were killed in a school bombing in Israel, there is little doubt it would have been plastered all over major newspapers, led nightly broadcasts, and been asked about on the Sunday News programs. But—as
the over 20,000 dead Palestinian children killed by a US-backed, Israeli genocide in Gaza affirm—Muslim and Arab life is simply not important, their children’s deaths are simply factored in, they’re collateral damage in a noble War on Terror, a perhaps regrettable “claim” that’s always “being investigated” but never held to account, much less elevated to moral outrage or sustained media scandal. The box is checked, a reporter does a write-up, aspersions are cast with “
Iranian state media” or “
Hamas run health ministry” qualifiers, and everyone moves on. Just another faceless three-digit number of Muslim children extinguished from existence and relegated to A11 in the US and Israel’s seemingly endless Middle East “wars.”
