Listening Post - Norway's mass murder and the mass media

This week we look at media speculation and guesswork in the aftermath of the Norway attacks. And a one-on-one with Michael Wolff, Murdoch's official biographer.

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News & Politics

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• Norway mass murder
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• aljazeera
• Norway
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• Richard Gizbert

[MardasMan]

AlJazeera, i have to applaud you :). It's rare, that one criticizes one's own newsgroup in such an instance. AJE, you care about objectivity and honesty. We need more of your kind.

[blueorangelettuce]

Give me a break, the media is not just stupid by mistake, but by design. Look at how they responded to 9/11, Iraq and violence in general. America loves to kill brown people in far away places.

[3sjh3]

Montrealwatchet should kill his self.

[T1337P]

BEN STILLER !

[truculantmuse]

Given the Jihadi doctrinal propensity for violence (over 18,000 religiously-motivated terror attacks since Sept 2001), it is not surprising in the least that initial speculation centered on Islamic terrorists. How disingenuous of us to pretend that the mistake is so shocking...or such an injustice.

There is a way to avoid such mistakes in the future. Muslims en mass repudiate Jihad and stop killing in the name of Allah.

[deniz11muis1]

always giving the mueslims the fault

[rodeo179]

GLENN GREENWALD FTW!!

[annoloki]

@Danaceb Not really true though, that's just the way things are reported in the media. The most terror attacks I remember here were by the Irish, they stopped when we started listening to them and working with them and addressing their grievances, there's the likes of ETA in Spain, but the Irish were calling 'dissidents'; ETA are called 'separatists', the word 'terrorist' is for some reason reserved for Islamics... but that's just narrative, got nothing to do with reality.

[MediaRuger]

@montrealwatcher The way you go on i see you got no education and you got Tourette's disorder get help fast also spare me your hatred towards Islam and the holy book you think because someone express their views they are automatically muslims and jew haters ha ha ha get a grip kiddo!

[WinkyMaeve]

glen greenwalds a gangsra

[Danaceb]

To be fair to the retarded media, how many bombings and acts of mass murder are committed in the name of Islam compared to any other cause? Hundreds of times over easily. I knew it was less likely than others assumed to be Islamic terrorist by it being in Norway of all places, but Islam still had a part to play as a grievance.

[peteregor]

This anti-muslim view is not a view of the people in Norway! We the people are very proud of our multi cultural comunities.....Christians, Muslims, Hindus and so on...We are ONE..The People of small  5 millon country NORWAY...Its always some who wanna fight our beliefes but they will NEVER win...