Priorities: Networks Cover First Dog Bo 28 Times More Than Armenian Genocide

Media Research Center ^ | April 24, 2015 | Dan Gainor

Many historians call the Armenian Holocaust the first holocaust of the 20th Century, a dress rehearsal for the Nazi nightmare that followed. This April 24 marks the 100th anniversary of the death of roughly 1.5 million* Armenian Christians at the hands of Turkish Muslims. That mass* slaughter has gone virtually unreported by the broadcast networks.

...This will be the seventh anniversary that Obama breaks that promise to be honest about what one U.S. ambassador once called a “campaign of race extermination.” Yet ABC, CBS and NBC morning and evening news shows have mentioned that failed promise only once during the Obama presidency. That occurred on April 12, 2015. Even that took the combined efforts of Pope Francis, third-generation Armenian-American celebrity Kim Kardashian and her husband, singer Kanye West – all bringing attention to the genocide.

The horrid anniversary is especially profound this year as the world watches once more as Muslim extremists butcher Christians across the Mideast.

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The Nightmare of Genocide.

Journalists didn’t have far to go if they wanted to learn about the Armenian Genocide. They needed only watch the February 28, 2010, 60 Minutes. Senior Foreign Correspondent Bob Simon, now deceased, showed the horror in terms hard even for Turkey to deny.

“Armenians and an overwhelming number of historians say that Turkey’s rulers committed genocide,” Simon explained, adding that the slaughter became a model for Germany.

Simon took viewers to a horrifying scene in Deir Zor in Syria, “the greatest graveyard of the Armenian genocide,”


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