I agree with you, but what I find disturbing is what I have witnessed on a number of networks like CNBC, MSNBC and CNN: an almost gleeful reporting of deaths of US Forces in Iraq. For instance, this morning Dara Brown, the pretty-faced airhead newsreader on CNBC, after reporting American deaths, then said: "On a sad note, singer Robert Palmer died." The contrast in sentiment could not have been more stark nor more revealing of her true sentiments.
Dara left the show today for maternity leave. I wish her better wishes for her health and the well-being of her baby than she has expressed for our fallen soldiers and their grieving families over the months she has been reading the news.
What galls me is how close CNBC's posture has been to the Democrat campaign strategy to oppose everything President Bush proposes, whether it be a stimulus for the economy or funding for our troops and the rebuilding of Iraq. Ellen Ratner, Democratic consultant, said it most succinctly: "We hope Bush messes up in Iraq", meaning maximum casualties. Ratner later apologized, even as the strategy was being implemented, apparently with full participation by some networks.
Yet here your good-news thread sits, with little apparent interest.