Posted on 02/19/2004 12:45:56 AM PST by unspun
Newscasts on Baltimore County-based Sinclair Broadcast Group stations are reporting and airing stories this month that, under ordinary circumstances, would send viewers scurrying to the fridge.
Their journalists are describing school construction and consumer sales and energy infrastructure. They're talking about people getting their first mortgages and the unemployed desperately looking for their first jobs in years. All in all, it's what would normally be considered mundane fare.
But Sinclair's Jon Leiberman and Mark Hyman are reporting from Iraq. And they are presenting what they say are the positive, "untold stories" that the "liberal media" don't recount during constant coverage of the attacks against U.S.-led forces and simmering political unease during the occupation of Iraq.
"What's really fascinating to me is the optimism that so many Iraqis have," Hyman says by satellite phone from Baghdad. And, contrary to what the rest of the media says, he finds they are brimming with good cheer toward Americans.
Hyman....
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
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