Friday, December 4, 2015

It’s worse than Fox News: The media is ignoring domestic terrorism — and has been for years

It’s worse than Fox News: The media is ignoring domestic terrorism — and has been for years

"The simple truth is that from neo-Nazis killers, to a rash of women’s health clinic bombings and attacks, as well as assaults on law enforcement from anti-government extremists, acts of right-wing extreme violencecontinue to unfold regularly in the United States. It’s a well-established fact that since September 11, 2001, “nearly twice as many people have been killed by white supremacists, antigovernment fanatics and other non-Muslim extremists than by radical Muslims.” Yet those kind of deadly, homegrown attacks are often treated as isolated incidents that are mostly devoid of politics."