Tuesday, May 05, 2015

How the media is reporting the execution of two Indonesian maids



 I am reading the articles in the international news ...two Indonesian domestic workers
  executed in Saudi Arabia .  There is a public outcry in Indonesia .Their family is on the pictures . They are
 victims ...

 It is not mentioned just in the middle of the articles that both women were convicted murderers . One of them killed another woman
  and the other killed a child .Actually she stabbed a two year old ....We do not see how strong the evidence was for sentencing them to death .  They do not write about the motives of the killings .
We do not see the image of the murdered ones . We do not see the grief of their families .We are not supposed to feel with them .About the child who died they write nothing . But we learn a lot about the convicted murderers .We see their family crying for them .

  The way  these cases are reported is a nice example of biased media coverage  !
 They always anger me  - not only that they want to blacken an Arab country  but also  that the criminal is more important  for the media than the victim ...I noticed this tendency in other non-Arab cases as well .



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