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More Evidence of News Bias: CBS & NBC Fail to ID Hasan as Muslim
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From MediaResearchCenter.org:
CBS and NBC Fail to ID Hasan as Muslim; ABC's Raddatz Relays: 'I Wish His Name was Smith'
By: Brent Baker November 05, 2009 20:48 ET
Neither the CBS Evening News nor NBC Nightly News, in their East coast feeds Thursday night, noted the Muslim religious beliefs of the mass killer at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas, but ABC anchor Charles Gibson wasn't cowed by political correctness as he teased World News, “Fort Hood tragedy: An Army officer, a Muslim convert, is the suspect in a shooting spree...” Introducing his first story, Gibson referred to how Major Nidal Malik Hasan “an army officer, a Muslim, opened fire with handguns...” (With a range of frequency, during late afternoon/early evening coverage, CNN, FNC and MSNBC all identified Hasan as a Muslim.)
Cryptically, ABC's senior foreign affairs correspondent, Martha Raddatz, concluded a story on reaction at Fort Hood: “As for the suspect, Nadal Hasan, as one officer's wife told me, 'I wish his name was Smith.'” So, a concern this will lead to groundless fear of Muslims?
The CBS Evening News avoided any mention of Islam or Muslim faith as Katie Couric provided this benign description: “Today, according to the Army, a soldier opened fire....He's identified tonight as Army Major Nadal Malik Hasan, a licensed psychiatrist and drug and rehab specialist from Bethesda, Maryland.” NBC anchor Brian Williams: “The soldier, identified as the initial gunman here, is an Army psychiatrist, Nadal Malik Hasan. He's an officer, a Major, and he was apparently armed with two handguns.”
NBC's Pete Williams insisted, the MRC's Brad Wilmouth noticed, “everything about his background is rock solid, and nothing extraordinary stands out about his background.”
(At another moment on ABC, Gibson he pointed out there's “confusion” over whether Hasan was convert or was born a Muslim. Brian Ross then offered that he “attended Damascus University in Syria and may be Jordanian -- likely not a convert if that's the case.”)
From the latter part of the story narrated from Washington, DC by Raddatz on the Thursday, November 5 World News on ABC:
MARTHA RADDATZ: Fort Hood's 1st Cavalry Division is currently deployed to Iraq, making this all the more tragic. This woman's husband is among the soldiers in Iraq.
WOMAN: He's really upset. He's freaking out. Yeah, it says [reading from PDA], “I'm freaking out here. I have no idea what's going on. The guys keep asking questions. Can someone please tell us something?” I don't believe for a second that a soldier could do this to another soldier at Fort Hood. I just, I don't believe it.
SECOND WOMAN: It's very, very stressful and we don't know what's going on.
RADDATZ: And on Capitol Hill late today, a moment of silence. Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison said the shooter was about to be deployed.
SENATOR HUTCHISON: The shooters were military people. And of course that's very troubling.
RADDATZ, ON SCREEN AT ANCHOR DESK: As for the suspect, Nadal Hasan, as one officer's wife told me, "I wish his name was Smith." Charlie.
— Brent Baker is Vice President for Research and Publications at the Media Research Center
Another little tidbit that is just coming to light is that Major Hasan was on the FBI's "watch list" for posting praise for Islamic suicide bombers on the web!
CBS and NBC Fail to ID Hasan as Muslim; ABC's Raddatz Relays: 'I Wish His Name was Smith'
By: Brent Baker November 05, 2009 20:48 ET
Neither the CBS Evening News nor NBC Nightly News, in their East coast feeds Thursday night, noted the Muslim religious beliefs of the mass killer at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas, but ABC anchor Charles Gibson wasn't cowed by political correctness as he teased World News, “Fort Hood tragedy: An Army officer, a Muslim convert, is the suspect in a shooting spree...” Introducing his first story, Gibson referred to how Major Nidal Malik Hasan “an army officer, a Muslim, opened fire with handguns...” (With a range of frequency, during late afternoon/early evening coverage, CNN, FNC and MSNBC all identified Hasan as a Muslim.)
Cryptically, ABC's senior foreign affairs correspondent, Martha Raddatz, concluded a story on reaction at Fort Hood: “As for the suspect, Nadal Hasan, as one officer's wife told me, 'I wish his name was Smith.'” So, a concern this will lead to groundless fear of Muslims?
The CBS Evening News avoided any mention of Islam or Muslim faith as Katie Couric provided this benign description: “Today, according to the Army, a soldier opened fire....He's identified tonight as Army Major Nadal Malik Hasan, a licensed psychiatrist and drug and rehab specialist from Bethesda, Maryland.” NBC anchor Brian Williams: “The soldier, identified as the initial gunman here, is an Army psychiatrist, Nadal Malik Hasan. He's an officer, a Major, and he was apparently armed with two handguns.”
NBC's Pete Williams insisted, the MRC's Brad Wilmouth noticed, “everything about his background is rock solid, and nothing extraordinary stands out about his background.”
(At another moment on ABC, Gibson he pointed out there's “confusion” over whether Hasan was convert or was born a Muslim. Brian Ross then offered that he “attended Damascus University in Syria and may be Jordanian -- likely not a convert if that's the case.”)
From the latter part of the story narrated from Washington, DC by Raddatz on the Thursday, November 5 World News on ABC:
MARTHA RADDATZ: Fort Hood's 1st Cavalry Division is currently deployed to Iraq, making this all the more tragic. This woman's husband is among the soldiers in Iraq.
WOMAN: He's really upset. He's freaking out. Yeah, it says [reading from PDA], “I'm freaking out here. I have no idea what's going on. The guys keep asking questions. Can someone please tell us something?” I don't believe for a second that a soldier could do this to another soldier at Fort Hood. I just, I don't believe it.
SECOND WOMAN: It's very, very stressful and we don't know what's going on.
RADDATZ: And on Capitol Hill late today, a moment of silence. Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison said the shooter was about to be deployed.
SENATOR HUTCHISON: The shooters were military people. And of course that's very troubling.
RADDATZ, ON SCREEN AT ANCHOR DESK: As for the suspect, Nadal Hasan, as one officer's wife told me, "I wish his name was Smith." Charlie.
— Brent Baker is Vice President for Research and Publications at the Media Research Center
Another little tidbit that is just coming to light is that Major Hasan was on the FBI's "watch list" for posting praise for Islamic suicide bombers on the web!
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Secondly, it's been pretty obvious from last November that the news media is far more interested in being part of the news story than in reporting the news story.
He stated himself that he was a Muslim first, an American second.
Those are Hasan's words.
Yet the news doesn't want to report it because it might "offend" someone.
Those someone's who offended by the truth might like to look in the mirror because the guy did this act of terror-yeah I said it-as a sign of solidarity with the same Islamists that flew into the towers on 9/11. If that offends you, too damned bad.
A few years ago, after 9-11, a 16 year old kid flew a small plane into an empty building on a Sunday afternoon. He had taken off without his instructor.
He left a note saying it was in solidarity with Osama. A couple weeks later it was revealed the kid had changed his name to the American sounding name given on the media.
If he was Jewish or Christian nobody would think twice about not mentioning his religion. In fact, I'd wager several would think it odd if it were mentioned in those cases.
Hell, his brain is probably still tingling with his leg. Idiots!!
and time again and then listening to the battled
poor soldiers and trying to give them counseling was
too much for him...he like so many of our soldiers
SNAP!! Time to end this so called war. Why blame
this on any News Media??
2. He never counseled anyone returning from war, he talked to them before they left
3. He is/was a home grown muslim terrorist
Gawd, get a grip
We can even compute the % of killers by faith. That way we can keep count and all will be fair.
That's downrigh pitiful. Seek psychiatric help.