Media new boogeyman of Iraq

[Nottingham]

Media new boogeyman of Iraq
By Pamela Hess
Pentagon correspondent
Published 9/27/2003 9:02 AM
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- As Bush administration officials and Pentagon chiefs peddle their $87 billion supplemental bill for Iraq next year - even as President Bush's popularity on the issue wanes -- they have a new enemy in their sites. Not Saddam or Osama, but the media.

As they see it, the problem in Iraq is not so much the almost daily casualties or the pace of rebuilding but the fact that the news media keeps harping on it, at the expense of reporting "good news."

"I understand that breaking news is largely driven by bad news. That's a structural defect of a free press," said L. Paul Bremer, the American administrator in Iraq, at a House Armed Services Committee Hearing Thursday.

The conservative American Enterprise Institute in Washington is holding a symposium next week on the very topic. "Is the Bush administration losing control of the situation on the ground, or is the media transforming a military victory into a defeat?" asks a flyer for the Oct. 7 panel discussion.

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I didn't know if this qualified for Latest News but I thought I would share this interesting article! :bounce:

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. ACK!!!

Nixon flashback! Cue Nattering Nabobs of Negativism line!

[MasonJar]

2. Boy, what will they think of next?

I cannot believe this newest spin. Do we ever see the pictures of the soldiers killed? Do we know the names of the injured soldiers or even what happens to them when they are at the hospital paying for their own meals. I'm sorry but that is disgraceful. I am sure the American taxpayer is paying for every campaign trip Stump takes along with an battery of FBI agents because he is so hated.

[RichM]

3. The title of the AEI "symposium" is disgusting, Orwellian.

This is how the system works.