[Coop]

Awesome story. But what I find so disturbing is that here on FR - where we understand the bias toward bad news - this thread has been posted for about a half hour and this is its second reply. But if it had been about more devastation, we'd probably be approaching 100 posts by now.

[MontanaBeth]

I just signed on and slowly making my way down the list, this is great news!

[July 4th]

The problem is that these are the reports we've always believed, so it's like "old news". When some devastating story comes on FR, half the posts are ripping on the biased press.

[niteowl77]

this thread has been posted for about a half hour and this is its second reply

It's all in the timing.

It is really disheartening to see our soldiers doing their job in Iraq, only to see them turning around and taking the time to try and undo the damage from the media's attacks. I thought I disliked the media before, but it was nothing like I feel now.

[boxerblues]

Sad but true, but I think most of us have been trying to got out the word on the pay raises. I know I bounce in and out all day long

[OESY]

Awesome story. But what I find so disturbing is that here on FR - where we understand the bias toward bad news - this thread has been posted for about a half hour and this is its second reply. But if it had been about more devastation, we'd probably be approaching 100 posts by now.

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.