Posted on 06/05/2016 10:33:14 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
It’s the very definition of absurdity: the networks have covered the death of one gorilla more than the deaths of 21 Christians beheaded by ISIS for their faith.
On Saturday, a gorilla named Harambe was shot after a toddler fell into the animal’s enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo. The broadcast networks routinely prioritize animal life over human life, and Harambe was no exception.
Last year, masked ISIS militants forced 21 Coptic Christians to their knees before beheading them on camera. Donning orange jumpsuits, the Christian men were martyred on a Libyan beach. ABC, CBS and NBC spent 6 times more on the death of one gorilla than they did on the mass execution during their morning and evening news shows.
Since the death of Harambe the gorilla through Thursday morning, the three networks have dedicated a total of 1 hour, 28 minutes, 17 seconds to the story during their morning and evening news shows.
ABC anchor Amy Robach announced the “zoo horror” during Monday’s Good Morning America while NBC anchor Al Roker promised “we’re going to continue talking about this for a while” to the gorilla’s death during Wednesday’s Nightly News.
For CBS, correspondent Jamie Yuccas reported PETA’s statement that the gorilla’s habitat “should have been surrounded by a secondary barrier” and the animal activist uproar during Weekend News on Sunday. Anchor Elaine Quijano concluded the segment by commenting on the “terrifying images.”
In contrast, since February 2015, the networks have offered 14 minutes, 30 seconds total to the 21 Egyptian Christians beheaded by ISIS in Libya.
On Feb. 16, 2015, NBC anchor Savannah Guthrie recognized the “chilling new video” of the “brutal murders” on Today. The night before, on Nightly News, anchor Lester Holt also described the video, adding that it made the “war more religiously driven than political.”
Later on, many of the mentions came as an aside in larger reports.
In a story about a local Libyan militia preparing to battle ISIS, CBS foreign correspondent Holly Williams also offered a sentence (8 seconds) during CBS This Morning on June 10, 2015.
“The group announced its arrival in Libya with trademark brutality. Two videos showing the beheadings of Christians,” she said.
CBS was the only network to mention the beheading in 2016. As a side story to a U.S. airstrike in Libya, correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti devoted one sentence to the video during CBS This Morning on Feb. 19.
"Much like Syria and Iraq, the terrorist group has made their presence known in the country,” he said, referring to ISIS, “carrying out several gruesome beheadings including this one last February, allegedly showing militants killing Coptic Christians on a beach near Tripoli.”
Editor’s Note: MRC Culture Intern Maggie McKneely contributed to this report.
#ChristianLivesDontMatter
The media took the gorilla story, and decided to push the story as another Cecil the lion story. Their template was that a beloved amazing animal was ruthlessly and needlessly killed by malevolent heartless human beings.
You forgot WHITE
Islam kills Christian is the news equivalent of dog bites man. It’s part of the essence of the beast.
The media, plus numerous others have put animals (any animal) higher on the importance list than any Christian and WE, have let that happen. American was, at one time, a Christian nation but our so-called leadership is avoiding any challenges to the conversion from a God fearing nation to one of a politically correct, ACLU, atheist, media driven country. Shame on all of us. Look at our money (In God We Trust", look at the numerous religious references on our government buildings, look at our churches and what has been happening to stop the "freedom of religion", CHRISTIAN religion. Ask yourself who has let that happen. It is time for the Christians to rise up and say enough is enough.
I’ve never seen a memorial for an instance of Road-Kill, but there are probably hundreds of animal welfare people who have memorialized the ape.
Only 6x more coverage?
As Hosea the prophet says (13:2)...
“Those who sacrifice man kiss calves.”
Nothing new under the Sun for the Left whether in ancient times or modern.
Well duh. They re not afraid of gorillas.
They are afraid of muslims.
If it bleeds, it leads — unless it’s a Christian human being.
Yes. Subhuman savages killing Christians - the media is happy.
Harambe = real, live gorilla
Cassius Clay = urban gorilla
Special Forces = experts in guerilla warfare
Me = the "girl-illa" of my husband's dreams
:o)
That's because Black Lives Matter. Black activists are quite incensed that a gorilla's life is valued less than a whit life. The ecos the same. For the ecos it is because they believe animal life is superior to non-Eco people's lives. For the BLM people it is because they simply identify with the Gorilla and feel that one of themselves has been shot to protect a white boy, even after the white boy turned out to be a Negro. They have many times gotten hysterical about white people calling them monkeys. Now they are claiming a "monkey" is one of them.
So typical.......don’t want to tarnish the image of BO and HRC who are instrumental in the rise of this satanic, savage group.
Being kept in the dark becuase this will be your fate soon enough if we keep going this way
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