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WASHINGTON — A photograph and videotape of a Texas soldier dying in Iraq published by the New York Times have triggered anger from his relatives and Army colleagues and revived a long-standing debate about which images of war are proper to show. The journalists involved, Times reporter Damien Cave and Getty Images photographer Robert Nickelsberg, working for the Times, had their status as so-called embedded journalists suspended Tuesday by the Army corps in Baghdad, military officials said, because they violated a signed agreement not to publish photos or video of any wounded soldiers without official consent. New York Times foreign...

<p>I'm trying. I've been trying all week. The other day, I drove another 30 miles or so on the streets and alleys of Baghdad. I'm looking for the civil war that The New York Times declared. And I just can't find it.</p>

The final film I saw at Cannes 2004 came from Egypt and contained a surprise. It was "Alexandrie ... New York," by the veteran director Youssef Chahine, and it told the autobiographical story of an Egyptian who comes to America in 1950 to study at the Pasadena Playhouse, and returns again in 1975 and 2000. There is a lot more to it than that, but what struck me was when the student joined his classmates in singing "God Bless America" at the graduation. I hadn't heard that in an American film since "The Deer Hunter" in 1978. The character in...

December 17th, 2003 Contact: Matthew T. Felling (202) 223-2942 TV News Turned Sour on Bush After Iraq War Ended Study: President's Coverage Dipped Sharply After “Mission Accomplished” Event WASHINGTON, DC- Evaluations of President Bush on the network evening news shows dropped from 56 percent positive during the Iraq war to only 32 percent positive during the six months that followed the end of formal military activity, according to a new study by the Center for Media and Public Affairs (CMPA). Coverage of Bush administration policies nose-dived from 49 percent positive to only 26 percent positive, a 3-to-1 negative ratio, during...

As I was spinning the dial last night, I came across the NBC Evening News during a segment about the success of U.S. policy and the performance of our troops in a place formerly known as Saddam City. It went on to note that the newly established Iraqi Police force were performing admirably which allowed our troops to concentrate on other tasks, such as water, sewage, rebuilding efforts, etc.I was absolutely dumbstruck and need conformation from someone, anyone, that this did air and what do you suppose those a-holes (NBC) are up to?

<p>CNN news chief Jim Walton had a "private converation" with reporter Christiane Amanpour after she accused her own network of being "intimidated" in its coverage of the Iraqi war. Amanpour, a guest on last week's "Topic A with Tina Brown" on CNBC, set off shockwaves in the TV world over the weekend when she said she thought her employer, CNN, was "muzzled" in its war coverage by a combination of the White House and its competitive position with the higher-rated Fox News Channel.</p>

Banfield's too good for them. Let me see if I've got this straight. Right-wing homophobic talk-show host Michael Savage, in his "book," The Savage Nation, jokes that MSNBC stands for "More Snotty Nonsense By Creeps" and refers to MSNBC reporter Ashleigh Banfield as "the mind-slut with a big pair of glasses that they sent to Afghanistan." So how did MSNBC executives respond? Why, they hired him, of course. And when he called Banfield a "slut" on the air for daring to interview loyalists to Saddam Hussein, his bosses reacted with silence. Now Banfield has chosen to speak out, criticizing the...

Cable's War Coverage Suggests a New 'Fox Effect' on Television By JIM RUTENBERG The two commentators were gleeful as they skewered the news media and antiwar protesters in Hollywood. "They are absolutely committing sedition, or treason," one commentator, Michael Savage, said of the protesters one recent night. His colleague, Joe Scarborough, responded: "These leftist stooges for anti-American causes are always given a free pass. Isn't it time to make them stand up and be counted for their views?" The conversation did not take place on A.M. radio, in an Internet chat room or even on the Fox News Channel. Rather,...

Thomas SowellThe recent deaths of journalists in Baghdad are more than just personal tragedies. Both the chances that these journalists have taken and the indignant reactions by the surviving journalists are a sad sign of a growing lack of realism in our times, especially among the intelligentsia in the media and in academia. More than a century after General Sherman said, "War is hell," it still seems to come as a great shock to some people when journalists get killed in the middle of a battle zone. The fact that they were warned beforehand by American authorities that no special...

In a nation prone to impatience, television is the great enabler. Having succumbed to an adrenaline rush in the first blush of war, the media has now crashed into fretfulness. Indeed, much of the weekend's TV coverage was devoted less to reporting on the war itself than to addressing concerns that the war was not going as planned, an image the Pentagon (news - web sites) rushed to refute on the Sunday talk shows.....

<p>To paraphrase a line Steve Martin used during Sunday's Oscar telecast, there were no winners and losers on TV during the first days of the war with Iraq -- but I'm going to change all that now.</p> <p>Fox News: Established itself as the dominant cable news channel as it pummeled CNN in the ratings throughout the first days of the war. It also did some creditable reporting, although the channel's rampant jingoism and in-your-face style is hard to take in large doses.</p>

<p>Well put, Jason.</p> <p>Wait a minute, Chris. Don't you think Marines under fire know how important their job is regardless of media presence?</p> <p>And CNN?</p> <p>Eric Burns is the host of Fox News Watch, which airs Saturdays at 6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. PT and Sundays at 1:30 a.m. ET/10:30 p.m. PT, 6:30 a.m. ET/3:30 a.m. PT, and 11 p.. ET/8 p.m. PT .</p>

I am in shock. If you didn't know what was going on and turned on this show, you'd think we were losing, ill-equipped, the Iraqis are strong and are unified to kill us. You would believe that we are killing civilians...in short...WE ARE THE BAD GUYS. They intervied an American soldier, who said in disgust "They thought it was going to be a cakewalk, but they're learning that it's tough to take over a country." He said THEY like he wasn't a part of it. It was unbelievable. I am incensed, my husband and I kept looking at each other...

March 29, 2003 BehindThe media continue to wail about the U.S. being forced to change its strategy, after early setbacks in Iraq. This proposition -- which is becoming accepted over the facts through mind-numbing repetition -- is compounded from two big lies: 1. There have been setbacks. 2. There was a strategy that didn't anticipate them. On the first point, there has been nothing resembling a setback. The U.S. and allied forces have moved backwards nowhere, under enemy fire, except in the briefest tactical manoeuvres. They are holding all their bridges and lines, and doing terrible damage to anyone who...

WASHINGTON (GOPUSA News) -- The military action in Iraq has been going on for only a matter of days, but from the tone of the questions hurled at White House Spokesman Ari Fleischer lately, one might think that the war is not going well for coalition forces. Tuesday's briefing began with intense questioning by Bill Plante of CBS about the delay in the humanitarian aid President Bush said would begin flowing to Iraq. Fleischer responded by saying the aid to Iraqis has been delayed by the regime's mining of the harbor. Fleischer added, "This serves, once again, as a reminder...

Al-Jazeera, the Arab satellite channel which angered the United States with its coverage of the Afghan war, has caused a new furore by broadcasting blood-and-guts images from the invasion of Iraq. Millions of viewers throughout the Middle East saw pictures of Iraqi and American victims at the weekend that many western news organisations would consider too shocking to publish. One showed the head of a child, aged about 12, that had been split apart, reportedly in the US-led assault on Basra. Others came from northern Iraq, where American missiles targeted the Kurdish Islamist Ansar al-Islam organisation. Yesterday, al-Jazeera relayed footage...