Oh, And By The Way .


Nah, the media ain't biased are they?

November 6 2009



The evasiveness of media in the immediate wake of the Fort Hood murders is
astonishing.



The ABC's Lisa Millar opened her midday report claiming to have "learned
quite a lot about the gunman", then revealed very little of it - apart from
that Malik Nadal Hasan had "attracted a lot of harassment because of his
last name" and "family background".



This came about, Millar reported, despite Hasan being born and raised in the
US. Not mentioned in eight minutes of coverage: Hasan's faith, which in a
case like this is surely of interest.



America's ABC eventually gets around to it, after listing various other
biographical details. In descending order of interest to that network:



. Hasan was an "army psychiatrist"

. He'd trained in Maryland

. He didn't get good reports while assigned to Walter Reed

. He wasn't married

. No kids

. His parents came from Jordan



Oh, and by the way ...



. A cousin describes him as "a pious lifelong Muslim".



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