The Pakistan/YouTube affair: Media bias, anyone?
Feb.25, 2008 in
Living in Pakistan, Media and Animation, Politics and Society
What is up with the extreme media bias against Pakistan? This morning, CNN focused its cover story on Pakistan’s decision to block YouTube due to the presence of content deemed offensive and inciteful. In the past, Brazil, China and Thailand – to name just a few – have blocked YouTube, but CNN has never presented those instances as a cover story… And in this day of a kajillion websites and thousands of ways to get around pretty much any kind of block, an action of this nature does not even constitute a cover story! To put things in perspective, some of the other headlines that had taken a back seat to the Pakistan/YouTube affair:
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American Airlines’ staff refusal to give a dying woman oxygen - resulting in her death
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The ceremonies held for an 8th grader who was shot dead in class (in the US), as the spate of random killings in US schools continues
Now I don’t know about you, but I would call this unbelievably biased reporting. Shame on you, CNN!
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