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Many mainstream media outlets channeled a significant amount of energy into uncovering the slightest detail about the accused soldier – now identified as Staff Sergeant Robert Bales. We even know where his wife wanted to go for vacation, or what she said on her personal blog.
But the victims became a footnote, an anonymous footnote. Just the number 16. No one bothered to ask their ages, their hobbies, their aspirations. Worst of all, no one bothered to ask their names.
Al Jazeera’s Qais Azimy then published the names of the 16 men, women and children — mostly children — who were killed in the Kandahar massacre. [Al Jazeera; Photo: Agence France-Presse]
FJP: US media is very good about reporting from where bullets, bombs and missiles launch. Where they land and who they kill, not so much.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m15kekLs5Z1qz5ew6o1_1280.jpg)
Many mainstream media outlets channeled a significant amount of energy into uncovering the slightest detail about the accused soldier – now identified as Staff Sergeant Robert Bales. We even know where his wife wanted to go for vacation, or what she said on her personal blog.
But the victims became a footnote, an anonymous footnote. Just the number 16. No one bothered to ask their ages, their hobbies, their aspirations. Worst of all, no one bothered to ask their names.
Al Jazeera’s Qais Azimy then published the names of the 16 men, women and children — mostly children — who were killed in the Kandahar massacre. [Al Jazeera; Photo: Agence France-Presse]
FJP: US media is very good about reporting from where bullets, bombs and missiles launch. Where they land and who they kill, not so much.
(Source: matthewkeys)
