We saw last night how the Triangle media felt the need to keep from the public the inconvenient fact that the Wendell Food Lion shooter was an Occupy Raleigh protester.
Now the Los Angeles and national media are hiding the fact that the shooter at Hollywood and Vine yesterday was shouting “God is great” in Arabic, as “instant jihadis” are wont to do:
What is most disturbing about this story, apart from the obvious horror, is that not one news account reported what one witness said the shooter was screaming: “allahu akbar.” Not one news account. The media is the enemy.
Check out the video here. One of the witnesses states that the shooter was repeatedly shouting “allahu akbar” at minute 2:42. This video is on the bottom right of the LA Times new story, but they don’t mention it in their coverage — neither does Reuters, CBS news, The Hollywood Reporter, KFAI, or any of the other news reports. I expect that this video will be removed or edited.
When the media routinely sanitize unflattering facts in their reports for political reasons (and we all know which end of the political spectrum receives this courtesy, don’t we?), journalism has ceased to exist.
