HoodaThunk?

Meryl Yourish has a spot-on take about the media’s coverage of events and what they choose to tell us. When it doesn’t fit their narrative (in this case, that pretty much anything Israel does is Bad™) they’ll be sure to not cover it at all.

Sometime in the last two weeks, a Red Cross ambulance driver was murdered after having been kidnapped. Nobody knows when, because nobody really noticed, and nobody really cares—because he was a Sudanese, and he was killed in Darfur. The ambulance driver wasn’t an Arab killed by an Israeli. There’s absolutely no news value in another dead Sudanese. After all, there have already been some 200,000 Sudanese killed in the war—two hundred times the number of Lebanese killed—and nobody really cares. It hardly even makes the evening news.

Indeed. The ambulance allegedly fired upon by Israeli forces (and there’s a mountain of evidence that no such thing actually happened) was the focus of the worlds’ media engines for a full news cycle or two. Note that the accusation was front page news but the evidence that it was a fraud was barely mentioned. Ths situation in Darfur is hugely worse than what happened in Lebanon and it barely rates a weekly mention. When it’s Israeli’s hitting back at Arabs who launch raids across national borders, that’s news. When Arab militias engage in genocide against African Christians and African muslims, that’s just not interesting since it doesn’t advance their agenda.

Hat Tip: Instapundit.