'Today' Doesn't Tell Us Mackinac Bridge Suspects Arab-Americans

[ksen]

Maruan Awad Muhareb. Adham Abdelhamid Othman. Louai Abdelhamied Othman.

Now you know the names of the three suspects arrested over the weekend, suspected in a plot to blow up the Mackinac Bridge, which connects Michigan's Upper and Lower peninsulas.

You wouldn't have known either their names or backgrounds had you relied on the Today show this morning for the information. According to the wife of one of the suspects, the men's families come from Jerusalem.

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Link: http://newsbusters.org/node/6952

 

[bammertheblue]

So?
The media can't win. They mention someone's race, religion, nationality, etc, people holler about racism or profiling (sometimes justified, sometimes not). They don't mention someone's race or origin, and people say they should have.

 

[Voegelin]

Typical.

If their parents were Christian however, we would hear how they were raised in a "strict Catholic" family or by "fundamentalist" parents.

 

[Vylo]

So?
The media can't win. They mention someone's race, religion, nationality, etc, people holler about racism or profiling (sometimes justified, sometimes not). They don't mention someone's race or origin, and people say they should have.

Exactly.