July 30, 2009

Media Double Standard


Compare the relative silence of US journalists regarding the murders of Iranian protesters in Iranian jails with the wall to wall coverage of the Abu Graib (Iraqi military jail) "abuses" of humiliating prisoners. No prisoner in US custody was murdered or had his nails pulled.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/world/middleeast/29iran.html?_r=2&ref=todayspaper

Reports of Prison Abuse and Deaths Anger Iranians
By ROBERT F. WORTH
New York Times
July 28, 2009

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