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AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda If I told you that the media coverage of the war in Ukraine is riddled with bias, what would you say? What if I also told you that a story about Ukraine should point out that what’s happening to that country should focus on circumspect comparability of Ukrainians to other persecuted peoples such as Palestinians, Kurds, Yazidis, Afghans, and everyone else who’s ever been persecuted? Otherwise, the story just isn’t sensitively framed.
What if a writer stated the worst thing you could say about Ukraine on the air or in writing is: “I didn’t think it was possible for this to happen in Europe in 2022”? Or that any journalist who expresses what’s happening to Ukrainians as a unique, world-changing event is guilty of the moral sin of being implicitly racist.?
Well, that’s what LA Times television critic Lorraine Ali reports in her recent article, “In Ukraine reporting, Western press reveals grim bias toward ‘people like us ,’” where she laments the words of her fellow journalists who went to Ukraine to cover the war. Ali’s bio on the LA Times site states that she has also covered “culture at-large, entertainment, and American Muslim issues” for her paper.
Ali’s article parrots and buys into the press release of the Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association (AMEJA), which takes umbrage at the statements of reporters from CNN to Al Jazeera. AMEJA’s virtue-signaling message to newsrooms is that one shouldn’t make the Ukrainians so special because it’s disrespectful to other “victims of war.” The AMEJA statement from February reads, The Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association (AMEJA) calls on all news organizations to be mindful of implicit and explicit bias in their coverage of war in Ukraine. In only the last few days, we have tracked examples of racist news coverage […]
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