Debbie Schlussel: Syrian Hit List: Journalists Targeted for Death; Not a Peep from U.S. Media
Our favorite source of Lebanese news, Ya Libnan, reports that Syria has a hit list of journalists. Syria, on the State Dept. Terrorist List, has a target: Freedom of the Press. The country is targeting journalists critical of Syria.
You'd think journalists all over America would be outraged and would cover this extensively, as they have the less worthy stories of leftist, pan-Islamist journalist Jill Caroll's kidnapping or ABC Anchor Bob Woodruff's injuries in Iraq. But you would be wrong. We had to go to a Lebanese site to find out about it.
Not a peep out of the Mainstream Media on Syria's mafia-style plan to eliminate fellow journalists (with apologies to La Cosa Nostra for the comparison). Yet, whenever Syria raises the spectre of forcing Israel to "give back" (read: give UP, not back) the Golan Heights and Shebaa Farms to Syria, the U.S. media is all over it, like Star Jones to food.
Oh, we get it. Freedom of the Press is only important when it's a tool against the West and in support of despotic Islamic regimes. Not when it's the other way around.
Posted by Debbie on February 17, 2006 05:32 PM to Debbie Schlussel