Reality, aka, "Why the press doesn't focus on the good in Iraq"

[CatWoman]

THERE ARE NO GOOD STORIES TO BE FOUND IN IRAQ!!!!!

courtesy of Daily Kos:







Amid the screaming and thick smoke that followed, quick-thinking soldiers turned their lunch tables upside down, placed the wounded on them and gently carried them into the parking lot.
"Medic! Medic!" soldiers shouted.

Medics rushed into the tent and hustled the rest of the wounded out on stretchers.

Scores of troops crammed into concrete bomb shelters outside. Others wobbled around the tent and collapsed, dazed by the blast.

"I can't hear! I can't hear!" one female soldier cried as a friend hugged her.

Near the front entrance to the chow hall, troops tended a soldier with a gaping head wound. Within minutes, they zipped him into a black body bag. Three more bodies were in the parking lot.

http://www.dailykos.com/

[indigobusiness]

1. The press is a shield against tyranny. Not a pep squad.

Give us the hard news.

[Jesus H. Christ]

2. It's only going to be a matter of time...

Before some poor deluded optimistic freeper is going to show up in this thread to say how underreported all the great things in Iraq are.

If I were a betting person, I'd say before post 20.

[One_Life_To_Give]

3. Sure they cover good stories

All the good news stories from Iraq have been printed. Didn't you see them right after the story about the good stuff in Harlem and Watts?

[Johonny]

4. It's kinda funny

Now when Moore shows that life was not all so horrible on the days before Bush decided the Iraqi people need to be liberate from themselves, he was burned alive. Indeed the talking heads said the it was offensive for him to completely ignore "the horrors in Iraq pre-Bush. (Although one would note the hoorors of Iraq weren't the stated reasons for the invasion... then). Now of course they complain that there aren't enough good stories to being flobbed out there. Jeepers you can't win. Don't look at the good stuff, don't look at the good stuff (blame), don't ignore the good stuff, don't ignore the good stuff.

[Djinn]

5. that'd be like the good in Afghanistan

in which women are still unable to be educated, work (unless you count a tiny minority in a small part of Kabul) people still can't get enough to eat, warlords once again rule most of the country AND there's a civil war going on around them.

Yeah for the good news!