Andisheh nails media hypocrisy in comparing coverage of the Chris Benoit murder to the Virginia Tech shooting:
Will American journalists and bloggers use the placement of the Bibles to speculate about Benoit’s motives and whip up anti-Christian hysteria? ...Contrast the news coverage of and blogging about the Benoit family deaths with the Virginia Tech shooting.
After reports surfaced that Virginia Tech mass murderer Seung-Hui Cho had the phrase “Ismail Ax” written on his arm when he was found dead by police, right-wing talking heads and assorted cyberbigots immediately tried to connect the massacre to Islam. According to their idiot logic, “Ismail” is the Arabic spelling of Ishmael, therefore Cho was a Muslim extremist.
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