Spinning Out Of Control: Honor Killings and Media Bias

October 29, 2009, 8:56 am
  


 

 

By Phyllis Chesler

We are entering an all-spin zone, a wild, weird and spooky season and I am not talking about Halloween.

With a few exceptions, the mainstream media continue to kill stories about honor killings and attempted honor killings in North America. How often did you read stories about the honor killings that took place in Toronto (2007), Dallas (2008), Atlanta (2008), Oak Forest, Illinois (2008), Alexandria (2008), Buffalo (2009), and Kingston, Canada (2009) — on and on, until the most recent attempted honor killing in Phoenix? Continue reading…


© 2009 Phyllis Chesler. This article was originally posted on Pajamas Media.

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