Highlighting Western Victims While Ignoring Victims of Western Violence
▻https://theintercept.com/2016/03/25/highlighting-western-victims-while-ignoring-victims-of-western-violenc
FOR DAYS NOW, American cable news has broadcast non-stop coverage of the horrific attack in Brussels. Viewers repeatedly heard from witnesses and from the wounded. Video was shown in a loop of the terror and panic when the bombs exploded. Networks dispatched their TV stars to Brussels, where they remain. NPR profiled the lives of several of the airport victims. CNN showed a moving interview with a wounded, bandage-wrapped Mormon American teenager speaking from his Belgium hospital bed. Source: The Intercept