Mainstream media framed Ukraine as more civilized than Iraq or Afghanistan

Evidence

“[Ukraine] isn’t a place, with all due respect, like Iraq or Afghanistan, that has seen conflict raging for decades. This is a relatively civilized, relatively European—I have to choose these words carefully—city, one where you wouldn’t expect that, or hope that it’s going to happen.” Charlie D’Agata, CBS foreign correspondent, “CBS: Ukraine Is ‘Civilized,’ ” supra note 7. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1792

Categorization

• SEED: This CBS anchor’s verbal stumble exposing Orientalist assumptions about which warzones ‘deserve’ coverage is fertile ground for an essay on media’d civilizational hierarchies.
• CANDY: A startling enough on-air quote to share as a light conversation piece about media bias.
• XREF: connects to: Oligarch-owned broadcasters decided Ukraine coverage by owner self-interest — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 486