Killing an Arab is a recurring event that the world has become desensitized to. An act so common it does not bear mentioning, and for journalists curating which war victims deserve coverage, a passing occurrence for a “place . . . like Iraq or Afghanistan, that has seen conflict raging for decades.” The War on Terror, and the network of actual and epistemological wars that preceded it, conditioned the world not only to ignore the killing of Arabs, but to accept it.

XREF: Connects to broader critiques of media bias in war coverage and the concept of 'sensationalizing' versus underreporting certain victims — echoes work on unequal news coverage of casualties. QUESTION: What specific metrics or studies quantify this coverage disparity in journalistic curation of war victims?

Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamopho…, loc. 1177