By Jack Mirkinson

People following the mainstream coverage of Ukraine are getting an excellent lesson in media double standards.

Running alongside the ongoing horror of the war in Ukraine has been a pernicious thread of racism and hypocrisy in some of the coverage of the conflict.

If you have been online over the past couple of days, there’s a good chance you will have seen the examples piling up. There was CBS correspondent Charlie D’Agata marveling that this was all happening in a “relatively civilized” part of the world, in comparison to Iraq or Afghanistan:

There was a Telegraph op-ed from Conservative politician Daniel Hannan that made the point as explicitly as possible:

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