[baskethead]

This is patently false. Iran has been called part of the Axis of Evil since Reagan era. Iran has been reported on as evil for decades. This current set of protests have gotten a lot of media attention.

The reason why Khashoggi gets so much attention is because reporters love nothing more than to report about themselves. There are plenty of other people who were killed by Saudi Arabia that got buried because the media doesn't care.

[miracle2k]

He was a journalist, but he was also working for the Washington Post in particular, and he was an US resident, and the details of this murder where particularly gruesome. No need for the jab about the media here.

[baskethead]

The jab about the media is absolutely warranted. How many women are found dismembered in the US almost every day? There was just a case last week in NYC. The media doesn't pick it up, but with Khashhoggi they did, because they care the most about journalists.

I'm not saying that it wasn't horrific what happened to him, but the question was why was there so much focus on his case, and the reason is because the media loves to report on themselves over anything else.

[paulryanrogers]

When a foreign government is suspected of dismembering a US resident it has more geo-political implications. Despite the fact that every grusome crime deserves equal treatment from the justice system.

[pessimizer]

The reason that is true about Saudi Arabia is because nothing else that Saudi Arabia does gets any reaction except tacit approval from the US, and they paid absolutely no price for Kashoggi, either.

Right now, the US is screaming about the veil right after recriminalizing abortion. Meanwhile:

Saudi woman given 34-year prison sentence for using Twitter

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/16/saudi-woman-gi...

Saudi woman jailed for 45 years over social media use, says group

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/30/saudi-woman-gi...

Saudi Arabia is imprisoning women while the rest of the world is not paying attention

https://theconversation.com/saudi-arabia-is-imprisoning-wome...

These stories get a little attention from the press ostensibly because they're about speech, but knowing modern journalism it's really because they are about Twitter. Women getting executed for infidelity? Not news.

[pc86]

Was the woman dismembered in NYC allegedly killed by foreign state officials after being lured somewhere?

I agree with your broader point that reports generally like to report on themselves when possible, but pretending the Khashoggi assassination (because that's what it was) isn't particularly newsworthy is kind of silly.

[retcore]

Also cousin of Dodi Fayed and second cousin to Adnan Kashoggi.