Posted on 02/26/2005 9:27:03 AM PST by Richie Rich
Bill Sammon’s report in the Washington Times should come as no surprise that there is liberal, anti-Bush media bias in Europe. It is refreshing, however, to hear Slovakia Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda explicitly blaming the news media for unfairly turning the public against President Bush with its biased news coverage. At a news conference, Dzurinda was reminded that, even though some European governments may have supported the Iraq War, the public often did not.
Mr. Dzurinda responded by telling the journalists, including one from CNN, that he was "shocked" to see media outlets like CNN and the British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) showing "only American soldiers killing people. But nobody was able to show Saddam Hussein, who killed many, many thousands of Iraqi people." "It was impossible to see a real picture of this regime," he lamented. "And the result is the public is one day strongly against Bush. 'Bush loves war,' he's 'new terrorist,' and so on and so on."
Looks like another opening for Fox News.
I can only imagine all the stops the EU would pull to prevent FOX from getting its foot in the door.
When debating Euro-libs on the net, I've been astonished at how many simply did not know about the UN Oil for Food scandal. There was a window of about 4 weeks where FOX and the Net reported it, and the Euro-media was silent.
How much of Euro-media is state controlled?
Danish taxfunded television repeatedly refered to the war in iraq as an american soloproject, even though the danish government said yes to send soldiers to iraq!
"I've been astonished at how many simply did not know about the UN Oil for Food scandal."
I've observed the same thing. The same is true about France selling missile systems to Saddam post embargo. The American MSM has practiced selective reporting for decades. We should not be surprised that the European media does also. The difference is the we now have alternate outlets that give us a different perspective.
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