LIBERAL MEDIA GAVE 6 TIMES MORE COVERAGE TO GORILLA DEATH THAN TO ISIS KILLING CHRISTIANS
On Saturday, May 28, security officials shot a gorilla named Harambe to protect a three-year-old boy who had fallen into the animal’s pen at the Cincinnati Zoo. In the five days that followed the animal’s death, the three major networks devoted a total of 1 hour, 28 minutes and 17 seconds to the story during their morning and evening news shows. An unfortunate incident, to be sure, but as one commentator noted, “a tempest in a teapot.”
by Geoffrey Grider
NowTheEndBegins.com
June 7, 2016
A NEW STUDY BY THE INDEFATIGABLE MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER (MRC) HAS REVEALED THAT MAINSTREAM MEDIA DEVOTED SOME SIX TIMES AS MUCH AIR TIME TO COVERING THE RECENT DEATH OF HARAMBE THE GORILLA THAN THEY DID TO THE GRUESOME ISLAMIC STATE DECAPITATION OF 21 COPTIC CHRISTIANS ON A LIBYAN BEACH LAST YEAR.
On Saturday, May 28, security officials shot a gorilla named Harambe to protect a three-year-old boy who had fallen into the animal’s pen at the Cincinnati Zoo.
In the five days that followed the animal’s death, the three major networks devoted a total of 1 hour, 28 minutes and 17 seconds to the story during their morning and evening news shows. An unfortunate incident, to be sure, but as one commentator noted, “a tempest in a teapot.”
By contrast, in February 2015, a group of black-clad Islamic State militants slit the throats of 21 Coptic Christians on a beach near Tripoli, which garnered only a fraction of the gorilla coverage. The terrorists videoed the execution, as the Christians, dressed in orange jumpsuits, fell one by one to the ground dead.
MRC’S KATIE YODER FOUND THAT ABC, CBS AND NBC SPENT A COMBINED TOTAL OF ONLY 14 MINUTES AND 30 SECONDS COVERING THE MASSACRE OF THE 21 CHRISTIANS, WHICH IS LESS THAN A SIXTH OF THE AIR TIME THAT THEY DEDICATED TO THE GORILLA.
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