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Headlines and front lines: How US news coverage of wars in Yemen and Ukraine reveals a bias in recording civilian harm

  • Written by Esther Brito Ruiz, Adjunct Instructor, American University School of International Service
Headlines and front lines: How US news coverage of wars in Yemen and Ukraine reveals a bias in recording civilian harmThe U.S. has provided Ukraine more than $75 billion in military and other aid to support its war efforts.Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images

War entails suffering. How and how often that suffering is reported on in the U.S., however, is not evenhanded.

Take, for example, the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen in March 2015 and the Russian invasion...

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