{"id":30796,"date":"2011-03-10T18:29:26","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T02:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=30796"},"modified":"2011-03-10T18:29:26","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T02:29:26","slug":"should-we-yawn-over-islamic-assassination-of-us-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=30796","title":{"rendered":"Should We Yawn Over Islamic Assassination Of US Troops?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/brent-bozell\/2011\/03\/08\/bozell-column-yawning-assassinated-troops#ixzz1GFoituNH\">Brent Bozell writes<\/a>: On March 2, two U.S airmen, Nicholas Alden and Zachary Cuddeback, were gunned down at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany. Two other Americans were wounded. The assailant was a radical Muslim. This was a huge story to most Americans \u2013 but, naturally, but not to our news media. If the amount of air time is any measure, the assassination of our troops drew a yawn.<\/p>\n<p>That night, ABC\u2019s \u201cWorld News\u201d offered a full report, but CBS and NBC each gave it less than 30 seconds. &#8220;Troops under attack in Germany, targeted by a gunman shouting in Arabic about jihad,&#8221; reported ABC anchor Diane Sawyer. Neither CBS or NBC found room for \u201cjihad\u201d talk, and never found time to ask about the young American lives extinguished.<\/p>\n<p>CBS saved room that night for Mickey Rooney\u2019s testimony about \u201celder abuse.\u201d NBC needed to save four minutes and 15 seconds for semi-retired Tom Brokaw\u2019s report on the decline in Reading, Pennsylvania, and then devoted another two and half minutes to promoting the Smithsonian\u2019s attempt to find a \u201cCandid Camera in the Wilderness\u201d with animal spycams.<\/p>\n<p>Even after the radical-Muslim motivations were confirmed, the anchors were still downplaying it. On March 3, Katie Couric relayed: \u201cIt appears 20-year-old Arid Uka had a grudge against the U.S. military. Sources tell CBS News that when he was arrested, Uka said \u2018They are at war with us.\u2019\u201d I\u2019m sure Mark David Chapman had a \u201cgrudge\u201d with John Lennon, too. CBS did go to a reporter in Germany on Thursday morning&#8230;but the whole story was over in 90 seconds. NBC offered two minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The same yawning thing happened at the newspapers. No one put this story on the front page. USA Today just reprinted the Associated Press on A-5. The New York Times put it on A-4. The Washington Post offered a story on A-6 that day, and then when it discovered over the weekend that one of the assassinated airmen was a Virginia native \u2013 Zack Cuddeback, gunned down at the wheel of the bus \u2013 they promptly reported it on&#8230;.B-6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brent Bozell writes: On March 2, two U.S airmen, Nicholas Alden and Zachary Cuddeback, were gunned down at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany. Two other Americans were wounded. The assailant was a radical Muslim. This was a huge story to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=30796\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,20],"tags":[25705,9823,10506,25729,25730,25731],"class_list":["post-30796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam","category-journalism","tag-brent-bozell","tag-cbs-news","tag-katie-couric","tag-mark-david-chapman","tag-mickey-rooney","tag-tom-brokaw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}