Yellow Dog

The Tsunami disaster has highlighted the corporate media's focus on sensationalistic stories, with its coverage of a newborn baby found floating on a mattress or today's big CNN story of a mother who had to let go of the hand of her 4-year-old son in order to save his younger brother.

But this article points out the media hypocrisy of non-stop coverage of innocent victims of the tsunami disaster compared to zero coverage of the deaths of innocent Iraqi civilians:

"The US corporate media coverage of the tsunami disaster exposes a huge hypocrisy in the US press. Left uncovered this past year was the massive disaster that has befell Iraqi civilians. Over 100,000 civilians have died since the beginning of the US invasion and hundreds of thousands more are homeless and weakened.

The Iraqi word for disaster is museeba. Surly the loss of life from war in Iraq is as significant a meseeba as the Indian Ocean tsunami, yet where is the US corporate media coverage of thousands of dead and homeless? Where are the live aerial TV shots of the disaster zones and the up-close photos of the victims? Where are the survivor stories - the miracle child who lived thought a building collapsed by US bombs and rescued by neighbors? Where are the government official's press releases of regret and sorrow? Where is the international coalition for relief of civilians in Iraq and the upsurge in donations for Red Cross intervention? Would not Americans, if they knew, be just as caring about Iraqi deaths as they are for the victims of the tsunami?

It seems US media concerns are for victims of natural disasters, while the man-made disasters, such as the deliberate invasion of another country by the US, are better left unreported."

Tsunami Disaster Highlights Corporate Media Hypocrisy