Media Bias (ongoing)

 

The People the Declaration Called ‘Savages’ Were Mostly Ignored in the Celebration 250 Years Later

And yet Native Americans were largely absent from US corporate media opinion pieces about America’s semiquincentennial.

I found 79 opinion articles about the 250th anniversary published between May 30 and July 4 in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and USA Today. Only three explicitly mentioned “Native American,” “Indian” or “Indigenous”; another referenced the genocide without using those terms. None gave Native Americans more than a line or two.

READ:  https://fair.org/home/the-people-the-declaration-called-savages-were-mostly-ignored-in-the-celebration-250-years-later/