You wouldn't know that from reading the widely panned headline from The Washington Post, which initially called the Islamist mass murderer an "Austere religious scholar at the helm of Islamic State," in its report on his death Saturday.
The Post quickly changed the egregious headline to say that al-Baghdadi was an "Extremist leader," rather than an austere scholar, but the fact that the newspaper initially went with the ridiculous headline-and a tepid article-is revealing, as was the rest of its coverage of the news story.
As Mollie Hemingway noted at The Federalist, the rest of the Post's coverage was stunningly negative, given what should have been such a unifying moment.
The Washington Post is representative of the hard work that went into spinning the killing of Baghdadi into, somehow, a negative story for Trump, beginning with a hagiographic look at Baghdadi as not a brutal rapist and murderer of his political and religious foes, but as an austere religious scholar.
His crimes were denounced, and his death properly labeled "a big win for America and the civilized world," by a different Post-The New York Post-in a properly titled editorial, "Rot in hell, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi."
It's that sort of coverage from The Washington Post and so many other mainstream media outlets that has contributed mightily to America's declining trust in our media institutions.
As in the cases of the Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and the confrontation of a Covington, Kentucky, teen with a Native American activist in Washington, and numerous examples of botched reporting on the Trump administration, it appears that the mainstream media is carrying water for one party and one political ideology, rather than remaining committed to dutifully pursuing the truth.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/29/media-coverage-of-terrorist-isis-founders-death-exposes-a-double-standard/
The Post quickly changed the egregious headline to say that al-Baghdadi was an "Extremist leader," rather than an austere scholar, but the fact that the newspaper initially went with the ridiculous headline-and a tepid article-is revealing, as was the rest of its coverage of the news story.
As Mollie Hemingway noted at The Federalist, the rest of the Post's coverage was stunningly negative, given what should have been such a unifying moment.
The Washington Post is representative of the hard work that went into spinning the killing of Baghdadi into, somehow, a negative story for Trump, beginning with a hagiographic look at Baghdadi as not a brutal rapist and murderer of his political and religious foes, but as an austere religious scholar.
His crimes were denounced, and his death properly labeled "a big win for America and the civilized world," by a different Post-The New York Post-in a properly titled editorial, "Rot in hell, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi."
It's that sort of coverage from The Washington Post and so many other mainstream media outlets that has contributed mightily to America's declining trust in our media institutions.
As in the cases of the Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and the confrontation of a Covington, Kentucky, teen with a Native American activist in Washington, and numerous examples of botched reporting on the Trump administration, it appears that the mainstream media is carrying water for one party and one political ideology, rather than remaining committed to dutifully pursuing the truth.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/29/media-coverage-of-terrorist-isis-founders-death-exposes-a-double-standard/
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