cspan caller: 'they should show the GOOD things in Iraq, not just bombing'

[mopaul]

so basically it's that damn liberal media again, showing only the daily bombings and snipings, instead of all the really wonderful shiny things going on there.

that's sort of what bush will say tonight of course, brag at fort bragg about all the really swell progress and happiness bursting out all over iraq and the middle east.

damn liberal media will lose this war just like they did the vietnam war.

[Kraklen]

1. Quoting Jon Stewart...

the media isn't reporting on the cars that don't explode.

[LSparkle]

2. The reporters can't get to the "good things" BECAUSE of the bombs!

If things were really so good, WE'D BE GETTING COVERAGE OF IT!!!!

[AX10]

3. How are the reporters going to get around the bombs?

:eyes:

[pocket]

yeah, they are REALLY GOOD

at raping children in jail, indiscriminately shooting bystanders, and poisoning the land with depleted uranium.

[Old and In the Way]

4. If there are good things to report...don'tcha think the Republican

Corporate media would be showcasing it? Iraq is a wasteland, last thing they want is to open it up to exposure.

[Webster Green]

5. I think the "troops" painted a schoolhouse....

Actually, that was a couple of years ago. Its probably been bombed by now.

Nevermind :shrug:

[doublethink]

6. That CSPAN caller should just pick up his/her fricking video camera ....

get on the next flight to Iraq ... break out of the green zone and go film then. :wtf: .... afraid of being shot or blown up? Yea I didn't think so. These people need to get a clue. Peace. :)

[Deep13]

7. Yep, it's all the media ...

... and not the cluster-fucks running the show.

[Jacobin]

8. Okay, here's a good thing

It's a 'good thing' the reporters don't try to leave the bunkers to report on all the 'good things' because if they did, they'd get blown up.

Will that do? :silly:

Stupid idiots. I hear this crap from nutjobs all the time.

[Stirk]

9. You know, there's a word for "good news" spots.

It's called propaganda. But then again, if the president is admitting to his need to "catapult the propaganda", and we've got right-wing rabbis praising Hitler's views on the media...

Oh nevermind. I know it's so horribly inappropriate to make those comparisons.

[uppityperson]

10. It does show good things, like cleaning up blood and body parts.

That's good because leaving blood and body parts just lying around is unhygenic.

[AX10]

11. If only the reporters could get PAST THE BOMBS in the first...

place...
Iraq isn't so nice. The media can't find anything good, because there is nothing good in Iraq right now, it's another Vietnam.

[Dr Fate]

12. They try very hard. Remember the Iraq election coverage?

Now the GOP justs wants them to make shit up. I'm sure they will.

[pilgrimsoul]

14. The caller might as well have said

"make me feel better about the war." This kind of call is a good thing. It means that the sheeple are starting to understand that this war is a moral outrage! And god forbid they should have some actual empathy for the Islamic brown people over there. I say rub their goddamn noses in it, make them smell the horror of Abu Gharib, Fallujah and Gitmo, experience some genuine remorse and acknowledge that THIS is what they voted for.

[Ready2Snap]

13. Since all politics is local

Since the consolidation of broadcating by megacorporations turned news into a profit center,
showing the good things would be contrary to the gospel according to corporate America:
do what makes the most money.

Even if they could get some pretty talking heads in there to do cutesy stories, the corporation controlling the operation would insist that they concentrate on the bad stuff.
Ratings -- Ratings --Ratings

Why doesn't this Pollanna try to get their local TV news stations to cover "nice" stories. LOFL

[lpbk2713]

15. Like ....... ummmm ......... uhhhhhh.......

..... the orphanages ...... and um the hospitals ....... and uhh the cemetaries. And all the buildings reduced to rubble ..... and um a burned out car every fifty feet on every roadway. Yeah, sure.

[justgamma]

16. Hey, they didn't like it when

Michael Moore showed good stuff in Iraq. Now they want to see more??