‘They seem so like us’: How bias creeps into war reporting
When Mahdis Keshavarz watched the Russian invasion of Ukraine unfold in the news last week, she almost immediately noticed a peculiar sense of astonishment pervading much of the coverage.
Journalists on air and in print were not only expressing shock that a war like this could happen in a European city, but also comparing it to conflicts in the Middle East in ways Ms. Keshavarz and others found deeply offensive.
One of the first instances came from CBS News senior foreign correspondent Charlie D’Agata, : “But this 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 for his words, and apologized.
