This Week: Bias Talk on Extremist Muslims....

[RadioRaheem84]

I had no idea just how much the right wing has infected the mainstream media.

Panelists on a talk about Muslim Extremist on This Week with Christiane Amanpour:

1. Author of Reading Lolita in Tehran, who dedicated her book to Paul Wolfowitz.

2. Richard Spencer, right wing Islamaphobe blogger of Jihad Watch.

3. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the idiot Dutch-Somali woman who campaigns for imperial wars to liberate the Muslim world.

4. Franklin Graham and his posse of rabid right wingers.

5. Only one liberal progressive Reza Azlan!

The rest of the show was on how a "beacon of light" America is and should promote it's values on to the Muslim world.

Not one mention of Israel, imperialism or Western policy toward the Middle East.

There was talk of how the Muslim country isn't capable of democratic values and how the majority of Muslims are potential extremists!

I know that we're not supposed to expect much from the mainstream media, but do you guys not find it absolutely ridiculous that right wingers are taken seriously as if they're just regular bloggers and reporters now? FOX News has really changed the dynamics of the media. It has made the rest of the news compete to be just as sensational.

[Fulanito de Tal]

Stuff like this is why I'm glad I don't have tv. The cable company called me to tell me the deals they were offering on cable. I told them that to put cable in my house, they would have to pay me monthly for infecting my brain with that garbage.

[Axle]

As much as it bothers me the way the media is so slanted against Muslims, it bothers me so much more that such a huge portion of Americans seem so stupid, lazy or ignorant that they take this shit at face-value.

[RadioRaheem84]

The media has reached third world levels of manipulation. I think Fox News really set the bar down lower than it could possibly go. Most of the news resembles the Venezuelan oligarch media now in it's sensationalism and outright manipulation of the facts.

[Red Commissar]

From what I watched the right-wing tards like Spencer and Graham were ridiculed, and they encouraged people to take a more leveled view of Islam. For that bit it was alright, it at least showed that Muslims living in the US and other Western states aren't crazed people bent on implementing sharia. It also took a stance against the use of Islamophobia that groups in Europe and the US (through things like Spencer's Jihad Watch) use. The impression I was getting was that Amanpour preferred the Muslim and other people over Spencer and Graham, who were often shut out and yelled at.

What I find sad is that a network has to actually go and do this. The promotions for this segment treated Muslims as some exotic thing that exists outside of US social circles, and aren't "American". It illustrates how much misconceptions and misinformation people have about that religion, which unfortunately won't be solved any time soon.

The problem I had mainly is what you mentioned originally, is that they are trying to paint the US as a model to try and "help" moderate Muslims to affect change in their societies. While the US is doing this, it is not for the purpose of bettering that nation but rather to push it in a direction to become a willing economic partner and able to be manipulated.