British journalist Tom Gross had a fantastic piece today in The Wall Street Journal titled If This Isn’t Terrorism, What Is?
In the piece, he rightfully asks:
So why are so many prominent Western media reluctant to call the perpetrators terrorists? Why did Jon Snow, one of Britain’s most respected TV journalists, use the word “practitioners” when referring to the Mumbai terrorists? Was he perhaps confusing them with doctors?
Why did Britain’s highly regarded Channel 4 News state that the “militants” showed a “wanton disregard for race or creed” when exactly the opposite was true: Targets and victims were very carefully selected. Why did the “experts” invited to discuss the Mumbai attacks in one show on the state-funded Radio France Internationale, the voice of France around the world, harp on about Baruch Goldstein (who carried out the Hebron shootings in 1994), virtually the sole case of a Jewish terrorist in living memory?
We’ve all grown accustomed to the media’s malfeasance in the realm of politics, but what we’re seeing here is worse than the usual bias. In this case, the media shows they have become unwilling to name a terrorist a terrorist in even the most extreme circumstances. I for one, am having none of it, and neither should you.
Read the whole article, it’s important.
