This report show how much the mainstream media cares about the deaths of Middle Eastern Christians (that’s right, about as much as the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops does), and raises an additional question: if 21 Muslims had been beheaded for their faith, do you think the mainstream media would have been this indifferent? Neither do I.
“Nets Cover Gorilla Death 6x More Than ISIS Christian Beheading,” by Katie Yoder, Newsbusters, June 2, 2016:
It’s the very definition of absurdity: the networks have covered the death of one gorilla more than the deaths of 21 Christians beheaded by ISIS for their faith.
On Saturday, a gorilla named Harambe was shot after a toddler fell into the animal’s enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo. The broadcast networks routinely prioritize animal life over human life, and Harambe was no exception.
Last year, masked ISIS militants forced 21 Coptic Christians to their knees before beheading them on camera. Donning orange jumpsuits, the Christian men were martyred on a Libyan beach. ABC, CBS and NBC spent 6 times more on the death of one gorilla than they did on the mass execution during their morning and evening news shows.
Since the death of Harambe the gorilla through Thursday morning, the three networks have dedicated a total of 1 hour, 28 minutes, 17 seconds to the story during their morning and evening news shows.
ABC anchor Amy Robach announced the “zoo horror” during Monday’s Good Morning America while NBC anchor Al Roker promised “we’re going to continue talking about this for a while” to the gorilla’s death during Wednesday’s Nightly News.
For CBS, correspondent Jamie Yuccas reported PETA’s statement that the gorilla’s habitat “should have been surrounded by a secondary barrier” and the animal activist uproar during Weekend News on Sunday. Anchor Elaine Quijano concluded the segment by commenting on the “terrifying images.”
In contrast, since February 2015, the networks have offered 14 minutes, 30 seconds total to the 21 Egyptian Christians beheaded by ISIS in Libya.
On Feb. 16, 2015, NBC anchor Savannah Guthrie recognized the “chilling new video” of the “brutal murders” on Today. The night before, on Nightly News, anchor Lester Holt also described the video, adding that it made the “war more religiously driven than political.”
Later on, many of the mentions came as an aside in larger reports.
In a story about a local Libyan militia preparing to battle ISIS, CBS foreign correspondent Holly Williams also offered a sentence (8 seconds) during CBS This Morning on June 10, 2015.
“The group announced its arrival in Libya with trademark brutality. Two videos showing the beheadings of Christians,” she said.
CBS was the only network to mention the beheading in 2016. As a side story to a U.S. airstrike in Libya, correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti devoted one sentence to the video during CBS This Morning on Feb. 19….

Last year, masked ISIS militants forced 21 Coptic Christians to their knees before beheading them on camera. Donning orange jumpsuits, the Christian men were martyred on a Libyan beach. ABC, CBS and NBC spent 6 times more on the death of one gorilla than they did on the mass execution during their morning and evening news shows.
Mike Ramirez says
“Nets cover gorilla death 6 times more than Islamic State Christian beheading”
And, that’s because Islamic apologists and groups, such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) are successfully and continuously making monkeys out of the liberal media and gullible politicians.
KnowThyEnemy says
Either that or the liberal media is monkeys to begin with. CNN has just posted an article titled “Ramadan for non-Muslims: An etiquette guide” (click title). So now we also have to learn to behave for a festival that is not ours to begin with.
And what do we get in return: A higher risk of suffering a jihad attack! (See this)
What a deal!
jihad3tracker says
If we remind ourselves that the Islam-loving American Leftie moonbats are also obsessed with “animal rights”, the reason for all the media coverage is obvious.
At the very next moment, with no fatal shot, the gorilla could have slammed the boy into a stone wall or drowned him — second-guessers refuse to admit it publicly, of course.
Ryan Muhammad says
Ah, the usual “the animal could’ve, so kill it” justification by animal haters to kill.
Paul says
This is a bit off topic, but anybody genuinely interested in animal
rights would not suck up to islam – halal barbarism, irrational dog
hatred, the sickening bloodfest of Eid al-Adha etc. Even the most
lukewarm of people with even a grain of humanity would be disgusted
by these things.
Sadly, as with other things, like gay rights and sexual equality, islam
gets a free pass to do as it pleases. In other words, these people
don’t actually truly believe in the views they say they espouse when
put to the test.
gravenimage says
Yes–Islam is hideously violent and abusive towards animals.
Ted Tyler says
CAIR control of the media is certainly a factor’ however, another factor could be that the networks are going for ratings. The killing of a gorilla and the question at to should it have been done to save the life of a boy is something that everyone could relate to and have an opinion on. The American public would really like that story. On the other hand, the beheading of anyone is a far more powerful issue that is actually too horrible to think about – and that is exactly how most American would like to handle it.
KnowThyEnemy says
The media did not hesitate to show the picture of a dead boy last year to push the pro-migrant agenda. Wasn’t that horrible to think about?!
The truth is that the Left (and leftist media by extension) has 1) intense hatred for Christianity, and 2) love for Islam. The Left knows feelings. They know that if they show Muslims killing Christians then the public will have feelings of empathy towards them, except the Left does not want people to have empathy towards those they (Left) hate! The reason why they always bombard people with pictures showing the plight of ‘migrants’ and ‘refugees’ is because they want people to have empathy for those whose they (Left) love!
The Left also knows that showing Muslims-killing-Christians will make people demand that Christians and Yazidis be given preference for refugee and immigration status. But that is absolutely not what the Left wants. They only want Muslims be let into western countries.
Hence it is more about their agendas and less about ratings. (Showing pictures of “suffering refugees” also causes the ratings to go up.) I sincerely believe that the leftist media will sacrifice ratings to push the agenda of those they love (Muslims, that is)!
Jay Boo says
If the news media had allocated more time, they might have had to talk about the filthy ideology which at the root is Islam.
More Ham Ed says
The leftist’s talking point is: first reject and attack Christianity, then everything else will fall into place.
Red Flowers says
The leftist press had a field day with this gorilla killing when they initially thought the child was white. When they realized he was black, there was sudden silence about the “white racism” that killed the gorilla.
Bezelel says
I am truly sorry about Harambe, he should be sent to the best taxidermist they can find.As for the MSM, I can see the monkeys posing for the”see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil” statue. That is unless it supports the globalist agenda.
Richard Paulsen says
Repeated on and on on the CNN. Wondered what they found so interesting. Turned to another channel. Today a long interview by Mrs Anderson CNN from Saudi Arabia with a saudi official dressed in all white. She congratulated him warmly on Ramadan. Big smiles.
He presented a grandiose shoppingmall. Called it a vibrant marketplace. Couldn´t see a single person outside. All staying at home on Ramadan? Boaring.
Turned to another station again.
Champ says
“It’s the very definition of absurdity: the networks have covered the death of one gorilla more than the deaths of 21 Christians beheaded by ISIS for their faith.”
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This is so backwards …
Adding to the absurdity are those whom wanted to spare the life of the gorilla over the child’s, and whom also blamed the parent’s for the gorilla’s death. Boy things have gotten so topsy-turvy.
Angemon says
And some people turned the whole thing into a racial issue – apparently, the gorilla was shot to protect the little kid’s “white privilege”.
Walter Sieruk says
Maybe the media giving more coverage to the killing of that Gorilla in the zoo then the murdering of all those Christians in Iraq, Syria and on that Libyan beach is just a sad reflection that many Americans have wrong prioritizes and are more interested in that Gorilla story then the murdering jihadist savages of ISIS. Just take the twentieth century for example. The fact is the more American cared about the topic of the Coca-Cola company changing the taste of it’s soft drink to test more just Pepsi -Cola. then they cared about the cruel brutal and ruthless oppression of the people trapped existing in the Islamic tyranny of Iran. It was even reported by Coca-Cola company officials that some people actually called on the phone in a state of tears pleading for the restoring of the old Cocoa-Cola taste . Yet no American called the American politicians even near a state of tears about the people suffering under the tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran. So in that sense history repeats itself. In the last century the America people cared about the taste of Cocoa-Cola more more then they did about the Iranian people. So in this century the American people care more about a Gorilla killing in a zoo then they care about the mass murder of Christians overseas by ISIS. This shows something must be wrong the many American priorities. Likewise , this also proves that Brigitte Gabriel had made a valid point in her book which is entitled BECAUSE THEY HATE . For is reads that “The West is ignorant and refuses to learn.”
Wellington says
The MSM, an arm of the modern Left, does not like the Homo sapiens species in general (e.g., nature good, civilization bad) but has a particular animus for Christians. The Pongidae family (gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans and gibbons), by contrast, get a complete pass. Oh yeah, the Age of Nonsense marches on unabated.
David says
Islam equates mental illness! And most Muslims are aware of this..When anyone critique Islam. Muslims go on a carnage bath because Muslims know that Islam is weak. That is what Muslims try to impose (sharia) by Jihad tactics!!! Muslims do not have a problem with truth of Islam. It is when anyone exposes the truth of Islam that Muslims do have a big problem with..Because Muslims cannot just tell people pretty words to a weak mind…That would be one of the biggest problems that persons such as ( Robert Spencer & Pamela Geller & etc..Get when they expose the full truth!!! Muslims go on a name calling parade & threatening…People stand up to these 6th century thinking Muslims…Study hard about Islams full history & you will learn why persons like Spencer & etc teach about Islams full history…1500 years..Most persons who say their Muslim do not even know what Islam is…..
Manuele says
“Nets cover gorilla death 6 times more than Islamic State Christian beheading”.
I didn’t like it when the poor animal was shot dead. But nobody should wander why NET put more emphasis in covering the Gorilla. “THE GORILLA IS THEIR ANCESTOR. THEIR UNCLE” IT’S IMPORTANT FOR THEM.
Ciudadano says
Modern MSM has become public opinion manipulation machines. One of the their tactics is ignoring or downplaying certain news and another tactic is highligting or giving excessive relevance to other news, in order to hide and distract from what really matters. There is an strategic agenda behind these tactics and it is defined by MSM owners. Everything is in “Numero Zero” by Umberto Eco.
Guest says
I’m all for rescuing the monkey’s as much as the next guy. But we should have more awareness of radical Islam
Ryan Muhammad says
ATTENTION: animal haters.
The issue is NOT that news outlets focused much attention on the killing of the endangered gorilla which did not harm the child but was put into potential harm’s way by negligent parents and the zoo which was supposed to have barriers preventing kids from easy entry.
The issue is that news outlets cover for Islam. Instead of inciting callousness against animals, why don’t you animal haters focus your attention on calling out the media on their downplaying of Islam?
The paranoia of you animal haters is obvious. Just like the Qur’an teaching Muslim husbands to attack their wives “out of fear” that they might do something wrong, when the wives don’t actually do anything wrong, you all call for the killing of animals because they “might do” something wrong.
Why not call for the murder of all dogs like Muhammad did? After all, some dog somewhere “might” harm a human, so kill them all to prevent harm to humans!
And since animal haters are on the “might harm a child” rant, keep the “might harm a child” paranoia going and kill all human adults since human adults “might” harm children!
Animal haters are going to attack me with a slew of logical fallacies in 3,2,1…
Ted Tyler says
Your assumption that those who killed the animal or those who thought that the animal should have been killed were “animal haters” is incorrect. Also, be aware that several people who were familiar with the behavior of that type of gorilla thought that there was a high probability that the gorilla would kill the boy.
Since it is highly likely that none of the people involved in the killing of the gorilla were “animal haters”, I wonder what your motivation was for making a post that marks you as a person with a distorted since of values. Perhaps your objective was simply to distract us from more important issues.
Mo says
@ Ryan Muhammad
“ATTENTION: animal haters.”
LOL!
ATTENTION: human being hater.
A child is more important than an animal. PERIOD. Got it? Good.
Ted Tyler says
If a child falls into a lion’s cage, I have no doubt that the lion should be shot.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/offbeat/enormous-lion-pounces-at-two-year-old-boy-in-zoo-after-youngster-turns-his-back-but-smashes-headfirst-into-glass/ar-BBtUe3D
gravenimage says
Are we going to take this supposed outrage over animal cruelty seriously from a guy named “Ryan Muhammad”?
Ted Tyler says
No, we don’t take him seriously. He is either an idiot or a troll trying to distract us from more meaningful issues. I suspect that he is a troll.
Jay Boo says
Ryan,
Yes, I admit that I suffer from animal-phobia.
I never used to have severe gorilla-phobia in particular until I saw the movie King Kong about a giant gorilla from Skull Island just off the coast of Muslim infested Indonesia. Ever since this Muslim gorilla arrived in Manhattan as a refugee he started killing people, breaking things and looking for blond haired infidel women sex slaves to kidnap and take to his hide-away. His last words were Allahu Akbar.
Bleeps says
Actually the buzz is for the Gorrilla because it killed a muslim and the whole world cheers for the Gorrilla who killed a muslim.
Bleeps says
Sorry for wrong comment! I meant The Tiger who ate one muzzie at a Zoo in India that was but is similar.
gravenimage says
I’m an animal lover, but this is still nuts.