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The Supposed Bias on Negative Stories; Coming from the Media in Iraq
Topic Started: May 31 2006, 09:22 PM (125 Views)
QuirtEvans
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Here's a transcript of a CNN interview with Lara Logan, a CBS News correspondent in Iraq. Logan says she'd like to do more positive stories, but she's prevented from doing so by ... guess who? ... the U.S. powers-that-be.

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You don't think that I haven't been to the U.S. military and the State Department and the embassy and asked them over and over again, let's see the good stories, show us some of the good things that are going on? Oh, sorry, we can't take to you that school project, because if you put that on TV, they're going to be attacked about, the teachers are going to be killed, the children might be victims of attack.

Oh, sorry, we can't show this reconstruction project because then that's going to expose it to sabotage. And the last time we had journalists down here, the plant was attacked.


Pam Hess, the Pentagon correspondent for UPI, chimed in with this:

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Just this week, as a matter of fact, we asked Donald Rumsfeld and Admiral Giambastiani about the successful hostage rescue in Baghdad which released the British hostages that had been there. One of their -- a number -- an American had been killed. And they punted on it. They said read the transcript from Baghdad. They didn't tell us about it.

So when we want to report something positive, a rescue, they didn't give us the information.


And Logan points out exactly why the press needs military cooperation to report the positive stories:

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you can't travel around this country anymore without military protection. You can't travel without armed guards. You're not free to go every time there's a school opening or there's some reconstruction project that's being done.

We don't have the ability to go out and cover those. If they want to see a fair picture of what's happening in Iraq, then you have to first start with the security issue.

When journalists are free to move around this country, then they will be free to report on everything that's going on. But as long as you're a prisoner of the terrible security situation here, then that's going to be reflected in your coverage.


http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0603/26/rs.01.html
It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010.
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Rick Zimmer
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Would you like some cheese with that whine, Quirt?

Sheesh! Didn't you know that we are making great progress in Iraq and things are going well and everything is really looking positive, no matter what the liberal media reports?

The fact the media used to be able to travel around the country and now can't is not indicative of a worsening situation. It is just indicative of a negative mindset that wants us to lose and jumps for joy at every bad report that comes in.

Things are really much better, Quirt. They really are!

Say it with me Quirt..... "Things are really much better!" "Things are really much better!" "Things are really much better!"

There, now, doesn't that feel good?

----Stop, Quirt! Don't look at the man behind the curtain!!!!!!----
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