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U.S. media still hiding bad news from Americans

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Gaard

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And now the good news from America's accomplished mission in Iraq ...

The other night on ABC News Nightline, Ted Koppel asked National Public Radio war correspondent Anne Garrels, who has been in Iraq throughout the war, "When you hear people in this country, Anne, say, look, the media is only giving the negative side of what's going on there, why don't they ever show the good side, what do you tell 'em?"

"I tell them that there isn't much good to show," she replied, describing how even military commanders have only bad news to share.

Two weeks ago on CNN, Time's Michael Ware, who has been covering Iraq for two years, gave an alarming account of being trapped in his Baghdad compound, which is regularly bombed and encircled by "kidnap teams."

He reported that the U.S. military has "lost control" and that Americans are "the midwives of the next generation of jihad, of the next Al Qaeda."

At the end of the exchange, anchor Aaron Brown warned, "(O)ther people see the situation there differently than Michael. We talk to them as well."

The next day, when the interview was repeated, anchor Carol Lin closed with, "And of course there are others who disagree with that."

Never mind that those others never had Iraqi sand in their shoes, let alone been under fire there.

"Freedom is on the march!" "We're making progress!" "The terrorists will do all they can to disrupt free elections in Iraq, and they will fail."

These are just some of the slogans that U.S. President George W. Bush now spouts, while the American cable channels duly carry his speeches live and the American print media give them front-page play.

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That's a yuck. So the reporters in Iraq don't report any good news because there isn't any. That's how news works?

Not.

Glancing through my the front page of the Oralndo Sentinel 9often referred to as the "Slantinel" around here) I see:

Proposal Falls Short of ideal for Pre-K

Soldiers Grill Rumsfeld

Report: 90% Survive War Wounds

Dog's at Relative's Home Fatally Maul 4-Year Old

Orlando Set to Grow Again?Up

Inside there's a story on Dick Clarke's stroke, Crisis in Ukraine

Ooh, and what's this even further in?

French Wine Makers Protest Soft Market

Hmm. Interesting.

Tell ya'll what. Stay away from Orlando. It's just friggin' chaos here. No good news to be found anywhere because if there were any the media would report it, yah know. 😉
 
Originally posted by: yllus
Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
Orlando Set to Grow Again?Up
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As opposed to growing - down? 😕
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As opposed to growing sideways, which this place is doing by leaps and bounds.

Originally posted by: Gaard
Dog's at Relative's Home Fatally Maul 4-Year Old
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Probably been a Rott. I hate those things.
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According to the story it was "probably a pit-bull mix."
 
I think we should give the Iraqi's the ultimate taste of freedom/democracy. Put on the referendum:

"Do you want the United States/Coalition forces to continue to protect Iraqis?"

Yes or no.


Yes we stay no we pull out. We promised them democracy, they have it with that vote, and if they lose it if we leave thats too bad. Democracy means letting people making decisions, however right or wrong they may be.
 
The public has little tolerance for good news.

How about this: "Sales of Dry Goods up 2.8% in Tampa, Florida" followed by about 1000 words, including lots of statistics? You guys would be reading that one at the breakfast table, right? 🙂

Man bites dog is a story. Dog sleeps, no story. Man sleeps, no story.

99.9% of what happens is not considered news by the reporters of the news. Try getting a press release printed in the newspaper, or a story about a disabled kid who set a new world record in weight lifting at the Special Olympics.

Regarding Iraq, I'm certain there is plenty of good news to report, but it's sort of like saying that a plane crashed and killed 350 people, but the good news is they found the flight data recorder intact.

We don't belong in Iraq and that ISN'T news.

-Robert
 
For those who wish to complain, I suggest that you enlist and deploy into the country. Lets see if you can do any better.... No, you dont wish to serve, lay it on the line each and ever day? Then I suggest that you SHUT THE F@CK UP and let those who provide your freedom continue to do their job........
 
Here's more good news hidden by US media:

"Fallujah, an American gulag

According to the International Organization on Migration, at least 210,600 Fallujans - more than 35,000 families - have been turned into refugees. Now the doomed city - reduced to a pile of rubble, but still closed by the Americans, with the resistance controlling at least 60% of it - is about to be turned into a concentration camp.

This Pentagon-sponsored initiative will see Fallujans herded to "citizen processing centers", subjected to DNA testing and retina scans, and forced to wear badges with their home addresses at all times. Cars will be banned from the city: after all, they are the suicide bombers' weapon of choice. Male Fallujah civilians will be regimented in "military-style battalions" and, depending "on their skills" will "be assigned jobs in construction, waterworks or rubble-clearing platoons" - in other words, chain gangs. Moderate Sunni Arabs in Baghdad are enraged beyond belief: they correctly identify this US-enforced gulag as the "model city" in an ideal neo-conservative Middle East. Now what's that got to do with elections?"
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American concentration camps - that's not good news, that's Grrreat news. How about that for a reconstruction effort.

Asia times
 
Originally posted by: Grunt03
For those who wish to complain, I suggest that you enlist and deploy into the country. Lets see if you can do any better.... No, you dont wish to serve, lay it on the line each and ever day? Then I suggest that you SHUT THE F@CK UP and let those who provide your freedom continue to do their job........
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:roll:
Don't take it personally...
 
Originally posted by: Grunt03
For those who wish to complain, I suggest that you enlist and deploy into the country. Lets see if you can do any better.... No, you dont wish to serve, lay it on the line each and ever day? Then I suggest that you SHUT THE F@CK UP and let those who provide your freedom continue to do their job........
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For those who enlisted and wish to b!tch about politics, I suggest you STFU, follow your orders and leave the politics to the civilians.
 
Originally posted by: Moonbeam
We are the new Nazi Germany on the block.
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What do you mean we??? As in we the people? or they the Governments, the elitist in control of our country? Its like blaming the gun maker instead of the ones who used it improperly. We are a victim of cruelty, the only way to stop this is to stop feeding this monster thats destroying the world one nation at a time. so why not take on the whole world at the same time? we would lose, I mean they would.. 🙂
ugh, nevermind... This gets too crazy for us. Is this political correct?



 
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