ICC Note: Despite the United States official recognition of the genocide of minorities in the Middle East, the mainstream media has largely ignored the issue. While they report on war and the refugee crisis, media outlets only publish on average one story every two weeks about the state of Christians and Yazidis living in Iraq and Syria. “Never again” is happening again and it’s happening now. The Media Research Center recently published a report detailing the existent coverage of the genocide of religious minorities in the Middle East.

08/17/2016 Iraq (TownHall): On March 17, 2016, Secretary of State John Kerry officially declared the extermination of Christians and other minority religious groups in the Middle East a genocide. The move came after years of pressure from a number of human rights groups including the The Philos Project, The American Mesopotamian Organization, Open Doors, Knights of Columbus, In Defense of Christians, The Assyrian Aid Society of America, The Iraqi Christian Relief Council and others, whose activists presented evidence to the State Department proving genocide and ethnic cleansing.

You’d think genocide would be a newsworthy topic worthy of coverage, but unfortunately the issue has been absent from most major American media outlet airwaves. The Media Research Center recently published a report detailing a lack of coverage.

The three broadcast networks are reluctant to report on it, let alone call the atrocity what it is (and what the Obama administration has admitted it is): genocide.

The concept of “Never again!” seems forgotten by network journalists. Groups such as Open Doors, the Knights of Columbus and In Defense of Christians have documented the horrors in countries from Afghanistan to Yemen, the West Bank to Central Africa. It hasn’t helped. The media rarely tied the incidents together. Even when the pope, the European Union, the House of Representatives and finally the Obama administration all agreed that Christians were victims of genocide, the term was almost unused on ABC, CBS and NBC.

The networks have reported on the violence sporadically and often superficially. They mentioned the plight of Christians in Muslim countries in only 60 stories between January 2014 and June 2016 – an average of just one story every two weeks across all three networks. But they have essentially refused to connect their own dots and call it what it clearly is: genocide.

MRC has also detailed the most egregious cases of ignoring the genocide in their report, which can be read in full here:

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