Press slants Iraq news: Members (Rips the media and thier negative view of Iraq!)

HillNews ^ | 9/23/03

[OldFriend]

No doubt the alphabets will be discussing this any moment now.

[hobbes1]

BTTT.

[princess leah]

Is there any chance a stray bomb could hit the hotel with these "journalists"...Their slanted bias is nothing short of TREASON against our American forces! THey are, in essence, AIDING and ABETTING the ENEMY!

[OldFriend]

The very reason they are in Iraq is to keep the negative reports on the front pages of the newspapers and the lead stories on the alphabets.

[Smogger]

Already posted. But certainly should have been frontpage or breaking. Somone call Fox News.

[mtbopfuyn]

This isn't the first of the spankings the media is getting. The tide will be forced to turn.

[oyez]

Bush and the Republicans needs to get ahead of the media and the C'rats who are bound and determined subvert the war news and use it against against them. I smell the same raw deal W's father got.

[Arrowhead1952]

Rep. Ike Skelton (D-Mo.), the committee's ranking member, said, The media stresses the wounds, the injuries, and the deaths, as they should, but for instance in Northern Iraq, Gen. [Dave] Petraeus has 3,100 projects from soccer fields to schools to refineries all good stuff and that isn't being reported.

Skelton and other Democrats on the trip said they plan to reach out to all members of their caucus and explain what they observed.

If this gets on the national news, I will be surprised. This would be a slap in the face of every dumbocRAT and the 10 (and counting) dwarves. Imagine what Teddy and Hitlery will say if this is actually reported.

The ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN networks will never report anything good that is happening in Iraq.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Preaching to the choir, ping.

[Moose4]

In fairness, the war is neither going as well as the administration says it's going or as badly as the media says it is going, Taylor said.

That sounds like a pretty fair appraisal to me. And it's something that a principaled member of the opposition party might say.

However, I'm sure that once they get back, Charlie Rangel and Little Dickie and the rest of the Democommunist Caucus will start reprogramming the Dems on this little junket and have them spouting the party line in no time. Can't have the rank-and-file straying too far off the plantation, y'know.

}:-)4

[smiley]

exactly.

[cwb]

"Republicans were left out of the press conference..."

Nothing new, there.

[eabinga]

I think the government and/or military should be more proactive in public relations.

We have the Internet available to spead information, so where is the website from the government with a list of all the good things happening in Iraq and elsewhere?

[Timesink]

Schadenfreude / Media Shenanigans ping

[RobbyS]

Go to Drudge and look at the NAMES of the AP reporters. These guys are Arabs and every story is filled with the testimoney of Mohammed Man-on-the-Street who might be a Baathist plant.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Preaching to the choir..

The choir will pass it on. Thanks, Pan. Thanks for the post, areafiftyone.

Jim Marshall's AJC piece, while dissing the media, still parroted the DNC talking points re. Vietnam. Good to see this bi-partisan report.

 Thanks, Tonkin!

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[pgyanke]

"Republicans were left out of the press conference..."

Jeez, it's not like the Republicans are in the majority in both houses of... oh, they are? And they still can't hold a press conference? Is this press bias or bullying? In the case of the former, it's business as usual. In the case of the latter, on what basis can they bully?

Anyone else sick of the wimps?

[blackie]

Bump!

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

After listening to Rush read yesterday's Jim Marshall article again, I take back my complaints. On balance, it is a courageous piece. He blames the media for costing US lives. Good.