redstate.com By Dennis Santiago
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 whatâs happening to that country should focus on circumspect comparability of Ukrainians to other persecuted peoples such as Palestinians, Kurds, Yazidis, Afghans, and everyone else whoâs ever been persecuted? Otherwise, the story just isnât sensitively framed.
What if a writer stated the worst thing you could say about Ukraine on the air or in writing is: âI didnât think it was possible for this to happen in Europe in 2022â? Or that any journalist who expresses whatâs happening to Ukrainians as a unique, world-changing event is guilty of the moral sin of being implicitly racist.?
Well, thatâs what LA Times television critic Lorraine Ali reports in her recent article, âIn Ukraine reporting, Western press reveals grim bias toward âpeople like us,ââ where she laments the words of her fellow journalists who went to Ukraine to cover the war. Aliâs bio on the LA Times site states that she has also covered âculture at-large, entertainment, and American Muslim issuesâ for her paper.
