Whiteness in newsrooms skews coverage toward white suffering and away from nonwhite refugees

Evidence

Yellow journalism has always pervaded the media. But even more distorting is the imprint of whiteness, which skews journalistic ethics and uplifts the stories of those who look like the people who hold power, believe like them, and share kindred traditions. The Arab and Middle Eastern Journalist Association swiftly condemned the racism pervading media coverage of Ukraine and the neglect of nonwhite refugee populations in the days after the Russian invasion. It maintained, through a formal statement, that “newsrooms must not make comparisons that weigh the significance or imply justification of one conflict over another—civilian casualties and displacement in other countries are equally as abhorrent as they are in Ukraine.” — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1204

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the media-coverage critiques already read in this book and connects to the reader’s comparative global synthesis. — connects to: White celebrity humanitarianism displaced Black Americans from African advocacy
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1204