I'm surprised CNN left in the "Bush, Very Good!" line from the Iraqi soldier. Overall, a positive film from CNN on our training of the Iraqi army.
Will wonders never cease...
They left it in because their ratings are sinking and they know they have lost most of the news audience. What would be more telling would be if CNN-International or the BBC had the film. CNN-I is very anti-america and since that and the BBC are the primary world news organizations it should be no surprise that the US has, as President Bush noted yesterday, a public relations problem. Perhaps we ought to consider taking ads out, maybe even paying to have the correct stories printed?
It seems to me that CNN has seen the hand writing on the wall.
They may have data showing how counter productive the Dean, Reid, Pelosi, and Murtha attacks have been. They may have come to the conclusion that the constant trashing of Bush does not help the Democrats at all and it hurts both the Democrats and CNN.
They will have little way of spinning what is happening in Iraq and what will happen with the elections. If they cover it the coverage will have to be positive. Fox went positive on Iraq last Sunday. I wonder what the ratings were for the "Iraq, the other side of the story" show on Fox was.
Of course it may be more cynical than that. One way to restore credibility with the public is to praise Bush before you trash him. Sort of like Kerry voting for the act before he voted against it.
The media has been in a constant trash mode. Perhaps the new mode is praise 5 and trash 15. That may be about as fair as they will ever get.