Was the Buffalo beheading ignored by mainstream U.S. media?

Caroline Glick writes in the March 9 Jerusalem Post:

… Islamic violence in the West is swept under the rug. For example, to date, no mainstream US media organ has reported that in Buffalo, New York Muzzamil Hassan decapitated his wife Aasiya on February 12 after he stabbed her to death. Just a few years earlier that same mainstream media had embraced this murderer as a paragon of Islamic moderation after he established Bridges TV network, which was supposed to show the American public how moderate Islam is.

Could it be true that no mainstream U.S. media organ reported the beheading? It seems impossible.

Some Googling shows that I initially linked the local story from the Buffalo News. Brenda Walker at Vdare also quoted the story in the Buffalo News.

WIVB, apparently a local TV station in Buffalo, covered it.

But local newspapers and TV stations don’t count. We’re looking for non-local, mainstream U.S. media.

The BBC covered it, but that’s not U.S.

However, further Google searching shows that CNN covered it.

The New York Daily News covered it.

The Seattle Times has covered it.

The AP covered it.

Even the New York Times covered it.

We can’t say that the murder/beheading wasn’t covered by non-local, U.S. mainstream news organs. So Glick’s claim is way off. Unless by “mainstream U.S. media organs” she means only television stations. In which case the only one I’ve found so far is CNN.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at March 10, 2009 10:12 AM | Send