Glenn Greenwald on America's double standard
(NEWSER) - When US media outlets speculate on Robert Bales' motives for killing 16 Afghan civilians, they say he had financial and family problems, had served multiple tours of duty, saw a friend's leg blown off, etc. But when Muslims kill Americans, their motives are clear: "they are primitive, fanatically religious, hateful Terrorists," Glenn Greenwald of Salon observes. No matter how often extremists explain that their attacks are responses to US aggression, the media depicts them as acts "of pure hatred or evil." More»
