As FAIR has noted before (
1/8/18, 3/20/18), to
MSNBC, the carnage and destruction the US and its Gulf Monarchy allies are leveling against the poorest country in the Arab world is simply a non-issue.
On July 2, a year had passed since the cable network's last segment mentioning US participation in the war on Yemen, which has killed in excess of 15,000 people and resulted in over a
million cases of cholera. The US is backing a
Saudi-led bombing campaign with intelligence, refueling, political cover, military hardware and, as of March,
ground troops. None of this matters at all to what Adweek (
4/3/18) calls "the network of the Resistance," which has since its last mention of the US's role in the destruction of Yemen found time to
run over a dozen segments highlighting war crimes committed by the Syrian and Russian governments in Syria.
By way of contrast, as MSNBC was marking a year without mentioning the US role in Yemen, the PBS NewsHour was running a
three-part series on the war, with the second part (
7/3/18) headlined, "American-Made Bombs in Yemen Are Killing Civilians, Destroying Infrastructure and Fueling Anger at the US." The NewsHour's Jane Ferguson reported:
The aerial bombing campaign has not managed to dislodge the rebels, but has hit weddings, hospitals and homes. The US military supports the Saudi coalition with logistics and intelligence. The United States it also sells the Saudis and coalition partners many of the bombs they drop on Yemen.
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