Staging the news

http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/WhatWouldYouDo/story?id=4339476&page=1 (Hat tip: Little Green Footballs)

Try this on for size.

'Witness to Discrimination: What Would You Do?
Bystanders Turn Away When Muslim Actor Hired By 'Primetime' Encounters Hostility'

Missing from this headline: the fact that the 'hostility' came from a paid actor. Thats right, the victim was a paid actor, and the persecutor was, er, also a paid actor. This road-show is supposed to tell us what exactly?

I think most pertinently it points out an obvious lack of real examples of prejudicial behaviour, not to mention actual assaults or killings. Compare for example Yemeni behaviour with American behaviour. Recently,

'Seven Spanish tourists were killed in Yemen yesterday when an apparent suicide bomber linked to Al-Qaeda rammed a car packed with explosives into their convoy.
Witnesses said the road in the province of Marib was littered with body parts and charred vehicles from the huge blast, which was reportedly heard for miles. The explosion also killed their two Yemeni guides and left a further six Spanish tourists injured.' http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article2017836.ece

Thats innocent Spanish people murdered because they are White Christian Europeans. So, where are the equivalent incidents of American mass murders of innocent Swarthy Muslim Middle-easterners? There aren't any. Where are the incidents of Americans beating Swarthy Muslim Middle-easterners in the street simply for being what they are? There aren't any. So what exactly is ABC up to?

I have a suggestion. Could you ABC folks go to Yemen, take a white Christian woman into a convenience store (if Yemen has one of those) and get an actor dressed as a local to racially and religiously abuse her, and record the reactions of the genuine locals. If any of you get back alive with the tape, I'd be interested to watch that.