The Dehumanizing Double Standards in Media Coverage of War

[Kooky]

The point is: innocent Libyans died, and nobody cared about them.

I agree, the people defending Gaddafi didn't care about the thousands of innocents he murdered.

 

[InChrist]

Well, if you expect the US to pay the bills for the UN and defense of Europe, isn't it reasonable that it has a say in things?

I don’t expect the US to pay the bills for the UN or the defense of Europe. I prefer we wouldn’t. Nevertheless, having a say is much different than invasive interventionism into the affair of other countries.

 

[ajay0]

Normally, I would post an excerpt from the article, but I don't think it's possible to summarize its message without reading through:

‘Double standards’: Western coverage of Ukraine war criticised

A lot of this prejudice and lack of awareness isn't even from far-right media; a lot of it is from supposed liberals. I'm not sure I would personally put all of it down to white supremacism or deliberate racism, but at best, it's extremely clueless and dismissively ethnocentric.

Yes, this is very unfortunate and reflects the western domination of the media at present, leading to dehumanisation of the others who are not western or prosperous enough.

Hopefully such critiques would help western journalism to adopt a more objective and humanistic perspective while dealing with such matters, so that it will not keep on alienating the rest of the world against them.

 

[lukethethird]

He's a hero to me.

I wouldn't go so far as to calling him a hero, though he is sticking up for the people of Donetsk.

I would rather he came up with a peaceful solution but when dealing with provocation from US backed NATO, I suppose that doesn't come easy. This was all predicted but for some reason the west did not take Putin seriously and now the people of Ukraine are paying the price.

 

[Revoltingest]

I wouldn't go so far as to calling him a hero, though he is sticking up for the people of Donetsk.

I would rather he came up with a peaceful solution but when dealing with provocation from US backed NATO, I suppose that doesn't come easy. This was all predicted but for some reason the west did not take Putin seriously and now the people of Ukraine are paying the price.

Ukraine & NATO really provoked Putin by letting Russia
invade Georgia & Crimea without consequence.

 

[Kooky]

He's a hero to me.

Why?