If ISIL had burned down 4 Churches, it would have been Headline News

[Ptarmigan]

If ISIL had burned down 4 Churches, it would have been Headline News
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026929543

The church burning have been in the news. They are not arson, unlike in Iraq and Syria. You are called DUmmies for a reason.   

KamaAina (63,676 posts)

If ISIL had burned down 4 Churches, it would have been Headline News
http://www.juancole.com/2015/07/burned-churches-headline.html

Seven African-American churches have burned down in the past week and at least four of these southern Black churches were victims of deliberate arson, and possibly six were.

This news is being reported tentatively and in the passive mood. The churches burned or were burned. But that arson directed at an African-American church in the South after the Roof murders is likely the work of white supremacists is only hinted at. The ambiguity of thunderstorms is typically brought in, quoting local authorities. But there are lots of thunderstorms all the time in the South and churches have lightning rods. Why would a church that had stood for decades suddenly succumb to a single storm?

Shouldn’t the headline be “Suspected White supremacists burn down at least four African-American churches” ? Shouldn’t there be an agent, a doer, involved?

Compare how the press handled Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) attacks on Christians and churches. It was front page news! And the active voice was used, even though these events happened thousands of miles away amidst a fog of war and there were no Western eyewitnesses.

B2G (5,182 posts)
1. But it IS news

Google it.

KamaAina (63,676 posts)
3. But not 24/7

as it would be if them Mooslims were involved.

B2G (5,182 posts)
6. We don't know WHO was involved at this point

or if some of them are even arson. What do you want to see reported? Because I have seen a ton of coverage, just no details on who started them, if there is a who at all in some of the cases.

What exactly do you want them to report?

Rex (54,209 posts)
2. Corporate Media is owned by older white 'conservative' men that are a hair away from

belonging to hate groups and one DOES run a hate group called Foxnews!

If we had real investigative journalism (like we did decades ago) as mainstream and not alternative news...this would be all over the place in the news.

Sadly we have bought and paid for mouthpeices.

You mean older White liberals. 

[Carl]

Rex is as stupid as one can get and still be able to feed oneself.

[SVPete]

ISIS and other Muslim terror groups likely destroy 4 or more churches in the ME and southern Asia pretty much every day. And murder Christian by 2s and 20s pretty much every day. MSM coverage of all that is disproportionately scant, not excessive.

The 4 church burnings have been covered by local and regional MSM. I will confess that I also found it strange that the national MSM haven't used the burnings to gin up the appearance of a national "problem". IOW, the national MSM have, strangely, let a local issue remain local.

But the analogy is a total fail. ISIS has slaughtered thousands or tens of thousands of innocent Christians and Yazidis. The church-burners - who may have been black, and/or may have been covering up burglaries or set the fires to distract/divert LE from their burglaries - killed, AFAIK, zero. It's an apples and pineapples comparison.

It's pretty revealing that DU-folk are so desperate to divert attention from the atrocities of ISIS. Envy? A smokescreen for feckless Obamian inaction? ("Both" works for me)