News Brief: 60 Minutes' Yemen Whitewash
Added 2017-11-22 19:24:55 +0000 UTCIn this Patron-only News Brief, Nima and Adam discuss recent omissions by 60 Minutes and The Washington Post of the U.S. role in bombing Yemen, the broader effort to throw America's responsibility for creating famine and disease into a memory hole, and shifting human rights standards for U.S. and its allies.
[Note: This is a News Brief update on recent Yemen coverage; a full-length episode on the topic is coming soon.]
Relevant articles:
Ignoring Washington’s Role in Yemen Carnage, 60 Minutes Paints US as Savior (Adam Johnson, FAIR, 11/20/17)
When food is used as a weapon (60 Minutes, CBS, 11/19/17)
Saudi Arabia’s blockade could starve sick children in Yemen (The Washington Post, 11/8/17)
Yemen is on the brink of a horrible famine. Here’s how things got so bad. (The Washington Post, 11/19/17)
Children are starving in Yemen. The White House should intervene. (The Washington Post, 11/19/17)
The Catastrophe of Saudi Arabia’s Trump-Backed Intervention in Yemen (The New Yorker, 11/17/17)
Saudi Arabia’s stranglehold on Yemen condemns thousands to die in the coming weeks (Oxfam America, Politics of Poverty, 11/17/17)
