U.S. Media Still Hiding Bad News From Americans

[HawkerHurricane]

Published on Thursday, December 9, 2004 by the Toronto Star
U.S. Media Still Hiding Bad News From Americans
by Antonia Zerbisias

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.
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."

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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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the rest is at

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1209-24.htm

Since it's several days old, it's not 'latest breaking', but it's still important

[Swamp Rat]

1. SLEEEEEEEEP!

[karlrschneider]

2. Yet middle-America hears mostly only the 'good news' which we know,

of course, is horse shit. We have to keep disseminating the truth by the only means we actually have at this time...DU and the net.

[DeepModem Mom]

3. kick

[Darth_Kitten]

4. That Antonia Zerbisias sounds familiar.....

she's always been pretty direct, if I remember correctly. :)

[Q]

5. Not all of this can be blamed on the media...

Democrats have to finally admit that their leadership is PART of the problem. We hear the same 'we're winning the war on terror in Iraq' crap from them.