{"id":399651,"date":"2019-03-15T19:39:09","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T18:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-nz-massacre-reveals-msms-double-standard-in-covering-religious-attacks\/"},"modified":"2019-03-15T19:39:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T18:39:09","slug":"prison-planet-com-nz-massacre-reveals-msms-double-standard-in-covering-religious-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-nz-massacre-reveals-msms-double-standard-in-covering-religious-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb NZ Massacre Reveals MSM\u2019s Double Standard in Covering Religious Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p>Legacy media once again picking and choosing preferred narratives<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prison Planet.com<\/strong><br \/>March 15, 2019<\/p>\n<p>The New Zealand massacre highlights a glaring double standard in how the mainstream media treats religious attacks worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>The tragic murder of 49 people, most if not all of whom were Muslim, by a gunman draws similarities to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-4394838\/Thirteen-killed-42-wounded-Cairo-church-bombing.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2017 Palm Sunday massacre<\/a> in which two ISIS suicide bombers killed nearly 50 Christians in Egypt in two separate attacks, much like how the two mosques were targeted in Thursday\u2019s attack.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, there\u2019s been a spate of culturally- and religiously-motivated attacks over the past several years, such as the 2015\u2019s Charlie Hebdo shooting, the Bataclan\u2019s theater massacre and the 2016\u2019s Berlin Christmas market \u201ctruck attack\u201d to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>And the mainstream media reported on all these instances, but not quite with the zeal they\u2019re displaying in the coverage of the New Zealand massacre.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point, CNN host John Berman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2019\/03\/15\/cnns-berman-asks-if-trumps-language-is-to-blame-for-new-zealand-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">actually asked<\/a> if President Trump\u2019s \u201clanguage\u201d is to blame for the New Zealand massacre. Did CNN ask such questions in response to the Palm Sunday massacre? Likely not.<\/p>\n<p>Why not cover all of these attacks with the same level of seriousness and fervor as they deserve? It shouldn\u2019t matter whether the victims were Christians or Muslims because they\u2019re still victims of heinous crimes.<!-- [donotprint] --><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ppani\">\n<li>A d v e r t i s e m e n t<\/li>\n<li\/><\/ul>\n<p><!-- [\/donotprint] --><\/p>\n<p>In 2016, London Mayor Sadiq Khan fueled a firestorm when he claimed terror attacks by Islamic extremists were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3801018\/Terror-attacks-parcel-living-big-city-claims-London-mayor-Sadiq-Khan.html#comments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cpart and parcel\u201d of living in a big city<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But you\u2019re not hearing any such rhetoric pushed by the mainstream media in regards with the New Zealand massacre, not that you should\u2019ve with Khan\u2019s statement to begin with.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><strong>Watch: The Alex Jones Show<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Friday, March 15, 2019  at  1:10 pm<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/nz-massacre-reveals-msms-double-standard-in-covering-religious-attacks.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<p>           &#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/nz-massacre-reveals-msms-double-standard-in-covering-religious-attacks.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legacy media once again picking and choosing preferred narratives Prison Planet.comMarch 15, 2019 The New Zealand massacre highlights a glaring double standard in how the mainstream media treats religious attacks worldwide. The tragic murder of 49 people, most if not all of whom were Muslim, by a gunman draws similarities to the 2017 Palm Sunday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-399651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}