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Arab revolutions just a practice in PR?

The writer Slackman reveals his underlying bias (as he usually does) by portraying the Arabs/Muslims as the defeated, incapable people who shed the shackles of perpetual religious extremism by overthrowing their dictators. As if the revolutions in the so-called "Arab Spring" had anything to do with being labeled terrorists. Slackman fails to note the role the Western media plays in constantly linking terrorism with Arab/Muslim in the minds of its audience or that terrorism largely has been a response to scores of years of colonialism and imperialism. It seems the story was driven by Slackman's pitch to his editors and not interviews with revolutionaries expressing their concerns and joys. 

The blog news is a practice sums it up nicely here:

"The authors do not cite racism against Arabs in the West, rising hate crimes in the US and Europe since 9/11, oppressive dictators propped up by the West, or the consistently distorted image of Arabs in Western media: Hollywood films, television news, and, yes, newspapers, including the New York Times."