If we’re going to spend the next five, ten, or 20 years investigating the radicalization of young men and women, we may as well also study the radicalization of the news media, because whatever happened to the BBC demands a thorough review.
For years now, the state-funded outlet has drifted further to the fringe left (“left” by U.K. standards; by U.S. standards, it’s Pravda with its pinkie out).
But last week the BBC outdid itself, publishing a feature that, through unrelenting emotional manipulation, tried to cast the Afghan men who sell their preadolescent daughters into slavery and child marriage as sympathetic characters, while portraying austerity-minded U.S. legislators as villains.
If that’s not a radicalized way of looking at the world — choosing, out of sincere reverence for the church of multiculturalism, to blame Western conservatives for the matter of child brides rather than those arranging the marriages for profit — I don’t know what is.
“Selling children to survive: Afghan fathers forced to make impossible choices,” the report’s original headline read.
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