Meet Muzzammil Hassan, who founded pro-Islam station Bridges TV five years ago to fight the negative sterotypes of Muslims. Don't they look like an average sweet couple?
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He is now under arrest for beheading his wife.
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You would think that the extreme irony of this story would have the newspapers scrambling. But as Mark Steyn of NRO points out, such is not the case. In fact, when Hassan started his station, the media just couldn't get enough of him:
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When poor Mrs Hassan's husband launched his TV network to counter negative stereotypes of Muslims, he had no difficulty generating column inches, as far afield as The Columbus Dispatch, The Detroit Free Press, The San Jose Mercury News, Variety, NBC News, the Voice of America and the Canadian Press. The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle put the couple on the front page under the headline "Infant TV Network Unveils The Face Of Muslim News".
But, when Muzzammil Hassan kills his wife and "the face of Muslim news" is unveiled rather more literally, detached from her corpse at his TV studios, it's all he can do to make the local press - page 26 of Newsday, plus The Buffalo News, and a very oddly angled piece in the usually gung-ho New York Post, "Buffalo Beheading: Money Woe Spurred Slay".
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Will journalism ever regain it's integrity? I doubt it.
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