Posted on 01/01/2020 6:25:39 AM PST by Kaslin
The secular media greet Christmas as a shopping season and not as a special time for Christianity. They can devote hours of December "news" to which hot toys or gadgets would make great gifts but not to segments on Christ and His birth.
The same applies to the persecution of Christians. The apathy shown by the pro-"human rights" media here is appalling. They can pile on the "news" stories about children getting separated from their parents at the border as being un-Christian ... but not Christians being butchered. In some corners of the world, they are out to destroy Christianity itself.
Some national newspapers can tell us what's going on so long as it's not on the front pages. On Dec. 28, The New York Times ran a story headlined "Affiliate of ISIS in Nigeria Releases Video of Executions" and reported that 11 were executed in revenge for Americans' taking out ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The Times wouldn't put the word "Christian" in the headline. Why? "A voice-over says the killings are a 'message for Christians' and that all of those killed were Christian, although Nigerian experts said some of them were probably Muslims, based on previous episodes involving the group," The Times said.
How serious was the news? This story was published on page A-8. There were dozens of stories more important. Network coverage? It looks like ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC and NBC don't find the genocide of any particular import. They are ignoring it. Only that "right-wing" Fox News seems interested, as if only conservatives care.
Speaking of Nigeria, The Wall Street Journal posted a commentary online by Bernard-Henri Levy titled "The New War Against Africa's Christians." It began: "A slow-motion war is under way in Africa's most populous country. It's a massacre of Christians, massive in scale and horrific in brutality. And the world has hardly noticed."
And who notifies the world? The press somberly raises its hand, but writ large, it hasn't really lifted a finger on this subject.
Levy met with survivors who offered blood-curdling details: "The mutilated cadavers of women. A mute man commanded to deny his faith, then cut up with a machete until he screams. A girl strangled with the chain of her crucifix."
Back in March, we noted that anywhere from 120 to 280 Christians had been slaughtered by Islamic militias in Nigeria since Feb. 9, and ABC, CBS and NBC offered nothing. They might argue, and certainly some have, that they just don't have the resources to cover this kind of event. They'll tell us that once upon a time, the networks operated a series of international bureaus, with teams of reporters located in strategic areas around the globe, but that time has passed.
But that's poppycock. Sure, those bureaus simply no longer exist today. Or, if they do, they're shells. But that's not a reality thrust on them; it's one they've chosen. If they were to want to cover these horrors, they would apply the necessary resources. And if somehow that were a possibility, they could make arrangements with international news agencies to carry their footage. It's done all the time -- when they want to.
Were they in place today, the technology would allow the world to know of these atrocities within hours, even within minutes. God only knows how many lives might have been saved had there been international attention paid to the horror.
The problem is that this is old-fashioned news, and by and large, we're done with that. We are in the age of gossip, of chatter focused on giving the lowest common denominator within certain ideological guidelines. How can the public want what it doesn't know exists? So the genocide continues unabated.
It's the same story -- Trump -- told all day, every day, on every network, broadcast or cable. It delivers the ratings, and that's all they care about.
It's important to recognize that for every minute spent on Trump gossip -- which is about 90% of it -- is a minute taken from what's important. In this case, a worldwide genocide against Christianity is underway.
Sometimes we wonder how "journalists" sleep at night.
That’s cause all Christians are mental retards, pedophiles, bigots, and rapists. Can’t let that narrative change to sympathy through reporting. Duh!
The left is married to the death cult islam
The media don’t even care when they’re “people of color.”
Because Christians are their perceived enemy.
They’ve become nothing but the propaganda arm of the god-less, devil-worshipping communists.
They hate Christians, America and her patriots.
They’re “fake news”...an enemy of the People.
We’ll see how much they yawn when a war starts against them.
And that little sucker is coming.
The media is of this world.
“Liberals” don’t care about religious freedom. They don’t regard that part of the First Amendment as relating to the modern world. Even though freedom of religion, at its core, is about liberty for the individual to construct and discuss interpretive frameworks about the meaning(s) of existence.
All out war on the media might get their attention.
Did you forget we Christians are racists too?
People have had enough of PC. Have not heard Happy Holidays from one person....only in the news...or via media driven TV shows.
My fault, I forgot that bigot doesn’t cover the special sin of racism anymore.
Guess I’m a racist. My fault I apologize, I’ll just go shoot myself.
Maybe just me but did anyone notice a lack of any Charlton Heston classics -10 Commandments or Ben-Hur or any Christian movies depicting Gospels on TV this Christmas season? Didn’t they play these in the past and not just around Easter? Are they now purged from airwaves?
I quit watching the NFL for many reasons, but one of them was their damned “holiday” commercials.
Media are the Coin Changers in the Temple ....
Remember what Jesus did to them ...
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