QOTD: Joel Silberman
by digby
In our media if it bleeds, it leads. By over-emphasizing each horrific beheading video and war images, our media does its audience a terrible disservice. They are omitting the root causes for the rise of ISIS. Where is the funding money coming from? Who is buying ISIS’ oil at below market prices that subsidizes ISIS? Who and where are the banks facilitating the transfer of $2-4 million a day in oil sales to ISIS? Where are the banking regulators who have access that information? To be sure, this is a complicated story to tell to an audience that wants understand the situation but doesn’t want to invest a lot of time in getting educated. But that’s the story that I’d like to see.
Me too!
That’s from an interview with Silberman, a media expert, who has written this piece about horrific coverage of the ISIS situation and a lot of the history that led up to it. It’s mind-boggling to me that we’ve fallen back to the hysterical post 9/11 phase without missing a beat. And this time, all it’s taken is two video-taped murders. We are easy marks these days.
*I must take the opportunity to give a shout out to Chris Hayes who is actually questioning all this lunacy on his show. At this point, he’s about the only one I’m watching on cable news on this story beyond keeping tabs on the stupidity elsewhere. I’m getting nothing from any of the other shows.
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