Posted on 06/07/2016 2:42:03 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
A new study by the Media Research Center (MRC) has revealed that mainstream media devoted some six times as much air time to covering the recent death of Harambe the gorilla than they did to the gruesome Islamic State decapitation of 21 Coptic Christians on a Libyan beach last year.
On Saturday, May 28, security officials shot a gorilla named Harambe to protect a three-year-old boy who'd fallen into the pen at the Cincinnati Zoo.
In the five days that followed the animal’s death, the three major networks devoted a total of 1 hour, 28 minutes and 17 seconds to the story during their morning and evening news shows.
By contrast, in February 2015, a group of black-clad Islamic State militants slit the throats of 21 Coptic Christians on a beach near Tripoli, which garnered only a fraction of the gorilla coverage. The terrorists videoed the execution, as the Christians, dressed in orange jumpsuits, fell one by one to the ground dead.
MRC’s Katie Yoder found that ABC, CBS and NBC spent a combined total of only 14 minutes and 30 seconds covering the massacre of the 21 Christians,less than a sixth of the air time that they dedicated to the gorilla.
The scant mentions of the Christian slaughter at the hands of Islamic jihadists pale in comparison to the lavish attention paid to the epic saga of the death of one gorilla (the "zoo horror," as Good Morning America described it.)
A group of demonstrators distressed by the death of the gorilla held signs remembering the loss of the gorilla, bearing slogans such as "All Animals Lives Matter," "R.I.P Harambe," and "Senseless Death." A framed picture of the gorilla was set up as a memorial.
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The media are the enemies not just of the US, but of the human race.
I believe that was the day after the Inspector Generals report came out on Hillary- talk about anything else but...
I wonder how much coverage the media would give us if ISIS beheaded a gorilla?
Which is one little example of why the West is dying rapidly.
It would be a LOT if they were told it self-identified as a unicorn.
The death of the gorilla is much more important to Racist Activist organizations such as bLM because Negor activists identify with the gorilla as a Black Man and the child as a white person who should not be protected for any reason. The facts of the matter are that the child is a Negro child but that is irrelevant because the first reaction was to the thought that the child is white and not worthy of protection. As in all Liberal cause, the facts cannot be allowed to stand in the way of the Truth.
it’s not just the media, the readership/viewers are partly at fault. the forums were thousands of posts long on the monkey story - everyone and their mother had to opine. 16 dead girls - in a horrid way (no bullet in the brain for them) - just isn’t as important to the readers. sad as heck.
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