http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/tenn...



Six months ago, if you had asked a journalist whether a murder victim was Sunni or Shiite, you'd get the same blank-faced expression that you'd expect to get from your dog had you asked it the same question. It seems of late, to me at least, that the racial(? ethnic? religious? Not quite sure what to call it) aspect of this is being paid more attention to, perhaps as an understanding of the plausibility of a civil war in Iraq.

The purpose of this thread is not to discuss the vile actions of the murderers, or to decry the horrors of religious extremism - it's to ask the following question: is the media becoming more conscious of the Sunni/Shiite/Kurd divisions in Iraq, or is the mention in this article a one-off incidence?