This article adds to earlier research revealing that the American news media did not discharge their responsibility as a watchdog press in the post-9/11 years by failing to scrutinize extreme and unlawful government policies and actions, most of all the decision to invade Iraq based on false information about Saddam Hussein’s alleged weapons of mass destruction arsenal. The content analyses presented here demonstrate that leading US news organizations, both television and print, did not expressly refer to human rights violations when they reported on the torturing of foreign detainees during “enhanced interrogations” in US-run prison facilities abroad and the killing of civilians, including children, in US drone strikes overseas and outside theaters of war. Moreover, by framing torture and the “collateral damage” caused by drone-launched missile attacks episodically rather than in the context of human rights, the news media failed to alert the American public to the grave humanitarian violations in the so-called war on terrorism during the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations.

中文翻译：

---

美国媒体和 9/11 后以反恐为名的侵犯人权行为

这篇文章补充了早期的研究，揭示美国新闻媒体在后 9/11 年代没有履行其作为监督新闻的责任，因为没有仔细审查极端和非法的政府政策和行动，最重要的是决定入侵伊拉克关于萨达姆侯赛因所谓的大规模杀伤性武器库的虚假信息。此处提供的内容分析表明，美国主要新闻机构，包括电视和印刷媒体，在报道在美国管理的国外监狱设施中“加强审讯”期间对外国被拘留者进行酷刑和杀害被拘留者时，并未明确提及侵犯人权行为。平民，包括儿童，在美国海外和战区以外的无人机袭击中。而且，