Saturday, April 23, 2011

Libya and Gaza: Double Standards in Conflict Reporting at The New York Times

Click here to access article by Ed Maloney from his blog. Ed Moloney is an Irish journalist who now lives and works in New York City. For most of his professional life he covered the Troubles in Northern Ireland, writing for the Irish Times and the Sunday Tribune.

I have been noticing amplified US mainstream coverage of war crimes and atrocities in Libya and Syria perpetrated by their respective regimes, and noticed how different the crimes are in scale from the greatest purveyors of violence and war crimes--US and Israel. This rather lengthy article provides some of the horrifying details of this different coverage as well as the non-coverage of NATO caused civilian casualties during their "humanitarian" mission in Libya.