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“Why [#journalism’s] sudden clarity becomes utter fog when the subject is an Arab child torn to shreds by shrapnel or a Black motorist shot dead in a traffic stop or an Indigenous activist beaten at a pipeline #protest is a function of the preemptive deference to power”
— Omar El Akkad (2025)
#books #biography #politics #ethics #racism
Mar 16 at 2:21pmWeb
Show threadAndrei Mihailescu1d ago
@micchiato Except that you know of all these cases, and of others more, even where the victims belong to less obviously selected groups. You were not a direct witness, so you know of those cases because journalists informed you. So there seems to be no such thing as the general deference to power El Akkad tries to paint.