Journalistic Bias

Fair and Balanced?



When the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse case first hit the airwaves, a tidal wave of tsunami proportions portrayed American soldiers in the same light as Saddam Hussein.

I'm not here to defend the actions of the 372nd Military Police Company. What they did was a discredit to not just their unit but to all military veterans and personnel. They lost their moral compass and committed acts that I believe they would normally abhor.

But the media coverage portrayed this isolated incident as being pervasive throughout the military. While the news -- and the pictures -- rocketed around the globe, what was not revealed was that most of the guards in the pictures were already under arrest and later prosecuted. Still, the New York Times and other left-wing media sources saturated the public with story after story about prisoner abuse from American soldiers in Iraq, Afghanistan, Eastern Europe and Guantanamo Bay.
Al Jazeera ran the story continuously and the Islamic world reacted as expected.









So now I ask, where is the coverage on the five Bulgarian nurses and one doctor being held in Libya?
The six medical workers were accused in 1998 of purposely infecting Libyan children with HIV even though scientist have proven that the strain came from another source and was active before the medical personnel ever arrived in Libya.
These nurses aren't being posed in sexually degrading pictures, they are being raped regularly by Libyan guards. They are also being tortured and electrocuted and now have been sentenced to death by firing squad.

Libya is willing to free the accused for the mere amount of $5.5 billion. More than the compensation they paid for downing aircraft Pan Am Flight 103.

Where are the indignant Muslims protesting against the inhumane treatment of these medical workers? I guess infidels shouldn't expect to be treated humanely.

Where is the New York Times? How about Al Jazeera?

Here is a timeline of the key dates.