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Fox to Feature What Those Killed in Iraq "Accomplished There"
MRC ^ | Monday May 3, 2004 | BrentBaker

Posted on 05/03/2004 1:05:04 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay

Fox News Sunday to go Nightline one better. In reaction to Nightline's Friday night recitation of the names of every serviceman killed in Iraq, which Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace regretted had failed to provide "a context of what they went halfway around the world to do," the next edition of his show, he announced Sunday, will feature "a list of what we've accomplished there through the blood, sweat and, yes, lives of our military. We think the point is not just that those hundreds of troops died but what they died for."

Wrapping up a panel discussion on the May 2 Fox News Sunday about the April 30 Nightline in which Ted Koppel read the names of those killed in Iraq, as matching pictures appeared on screen, Wallace announced:

"After listening to all of the debate and then watching the show, we think the folks at Nightline made a mistake this week, listing all the brave men and women who have died in Iraq, but without providing a context of what they went halfway around the world to do.

"So next week, we here at Fox News Sunday are going to put together our own list: a list of what we've accomplished there through the blood, sweat and, yes, lives of our military. We think the point is not just that those hundreds of troops died but what they died for. And we hope you'll watch next week."

For details about what Koppel did and said Friday night, see the Saturday, May 1 CyberAlert: "Koppel Denies He's Against War, But Lectures on Sharing Its Cost." It's at: http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2004/cyb20040501.asp

Fox News Sunday home page: http://www.foxnews.com/fns/index.html


TOPICS: Announcements; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: chriswallace; fairandbalanced; fox; foxsunday; iraq; koppel; nightline; rebuildingiraq
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'Nightline' was (war-dead commemoration ) blocked in 8 cities. Viewer numbers said to be low.
1 posted on 05/03/2004 1:05:05 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
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To: fight_truth_decay
Seems like Nightline exploited the dead rather than honoring them. I will be interested to see the Fox report.
2 posted on 05/03/2004 1:08:45 PM PDT by cvq3842
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To: fight_truth_decay
Friday afternoon, I caught Kopple on Hannity's radio show. He was doing damage control on the broadcast before it aired. Hannity asked if Ted could understand how/why some might view it as anti-war. Koppel said something which , to me, goes to the heart of the matter, ( even though it's pure BS that the broadcast isn't anti-wr) He said.."it is NOT our job to be pro-war, or anti war. We take NO position ont he war."

This is pure crap. Our country is at war. Our way of life, our civlization, our values are under attack by those who want to roll back the last 1000 years of human history and accomplishments, andthe media, i.e. Nightline, doesn't have a position on it.

3 posted on 05/03/2004 1:11:26 PM PDT by ken5050 (Ann Coulter needs to have children ASAP to propagate her genes.....any volunteers?)
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To: ken5050
I heard Koppel on Hannity as well. He was outraged that people were complaining about the broadcast who hadn't seen it.

Now that we've seen it, is it ok to complain?
4 posted on 05/03/2004 1:14:31 PM PDT by VisualizeSmallerGovernment (Question Liberal Authority)
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To: ken5050
What you say is true. But I could accept a certain stance of "objective neutrality" on the war issue, provided ABC were to go to as great a length to convey positive stories out of Iraq as they go to convey the negative stories.
5 posted on 05/03/2004 1:18:54 PM PDT by My2Cents ("Well...there you go again.")
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To: fight_truth_decay
It's important that Fox do this. No network has concentrated on what we have done in Iraq which is GOOD!

Nada, zip, zero. Why? Ridiculous...Fox should actually have done this before now.

6 posted on 05/03/2004 1:19:29 PM PDT by what's up
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To: VisualizeSmallerGovernment
He was outraged that people were complaining about the broadcast who hadn't seen it.

I wonder what his view was of "The Passion" before it was released?

7 posted on 05/03/2004 1:19:44 PM PDT by My2Cents ("Well...there you go again.")
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To: cvq3842
A big plus for Chris Wallace! I'm beginning to like this guy.
8 posted on 05/03/2004 1:23:22 PM PDT by Sangria
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To: fight_truth_decay
Viewer numbers said to be low.

I honestly can't imagine anyone sitting and watching it. I have to assume that some percentage of TV's in America are left on with no one in the room, or as night lights, or (as we often do) left on while we go out so the animals won't feel lonely (although I my dogs insist on "Fox").

But think about it; who would actually sit there for an hour and listen to Koppel reading from a list? My suspicion is "nobody".

9 posted on 05/03/2004 1:23:39 PM PDT by marron
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To: fight_truth_decay
Will this program be considered 'political' since it seems to have a pro-Bush slant to it?
10 posted on 05/03/2004 1:23:55 PM PDT by familyofman
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To: familyofman
Will this program be considered 'political' since it seems to have a pro-Bush slant to it?

Thats the big loophole in Campaign Finance Laws. News organizations are basically exempt. And, anyway, no one could say anything unless they were prepared to admit that the Koppel piece was anti-Bush.

11 posted on 05/03/2004 1:26:26 PM PDT by marron
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To: fight_truth_decay
Thanks to Fox News Channel for this. It may offset the 24x7 undermining of our troops by ABCBSCNNBCNYT.
12 posted on 05/03/2004 1:38:43 PM PDT by Mogollon
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To: My2Cents
But I could accept a certain stance of "objective neutrality" on the war issue, provided ABC were to go to as great a length to convey positive stories out of Iraq as they go to convey the negative stories.

Murrow wasn't neutral. Neither was Ernie Pyle.

Taking a position of neutrality in the War on Terror is assigning moral equivalence between the 9/11 attacks and our military strikes. It is an absurd stance, and one that is only taken for political reasons. It's despicable.

The press should scream bloody murder at incidents such as the unpleasantness at the prison. They should also take note that children throw flowers at our troops as they drive by. But in the end, I believe the press must take sides. Just as the Constitution is not a suicide pact, its First Amendment is not a sword to be plunged at our own heart.

13 posted on 05/03/2004 1:40:14 PM PDT by Mr. Bird (Ain't the beer cold!)
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To: Mr. Bird
Well said, sir.
14 posted on 05/03/2004 1:42:33 PM PDT by George Smiley (Is the RKBA still a right if you have to get the government's permission before you can exercise it?)
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To: fight_truth_decay
I hope it is mentioned among the accomplishments that the sacking of Iraq is a critical component in the restoration of respect of our country's resolve to protect its citizens.

Our enemies expected us to come to Afghanistan looking for them, and they expected us to be defeated just like the Russians. At worst, they figured they would have us bogged down there for years, they never envisioned they would end up in caves, the symbol of Arab power would be in jail awaiting death, and worst for them, the kryptonite-like effect which democracy will have on the entire region's power structure.

15 posted on 05/03/2004 1:44:10 PM PDT by wayoverontheright (Hidetheweeniespeak-the native tongue of liberals.)
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To: Mr. Bird
The hypocracy of the LEFT is utterly plain for all to see, and can simply be exposed as follows ....

They always bemoan and announce "death counts" in war, but NEVER EVER, EVER, EVER, explain the PURPOSE of the SACRIFICE, and the MEANING of why people DIED in the course of that war.

They simply announce a death, and the "tragic consequences" while NEVER EVER, EVER, EVER providing the meaning and purpose as to why those people died.
16 posted on 05/03/2004 1:51:49 PM PDT by LibFreeUSA
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To: LibFreeUSA
"They simply announce a death, and the "tragic consequences" while NEVER EVER, EVER, EVER providing the meaning and purpose as to why those people died."

There is a significant number of naieve people who believe war is wrong under any circumstance. War is terrible, but not always wrong. We have a whole new generation that is about to learn freedom isn't free. The question is, will they pay the price now, when the cost is lower? Or will they retreat, and hide and one day find that the price of freedom has gone up to a cost that is nearly unbearable?

17 posted on 05/03/2004 1:56:21 PM PDT by brownsfan (I didn't leave the democratic party, the democratic party left me.)
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To: My2Cents
I could accept a certain stance of "objective neutrality" on the war issue, provided ABC were to go to as great a length to convey positive stories out of Iraq as they go to convey the negative stories.

Can there ever be true neutrality? Can there ever be ideology-free reporting?

These media anchors have as much right personally to be liberal as anyone else. To demonstrate that their reporting is biased can be quite an undertaking. The MRC generally has done a fine job of that sort of thing. I have not read a deep analysis on the war coverage itself. I think such an undertaking must go deeper than the numbers of negative versus positive stories.

18 posted on 05/03/2004 2:15:31 PM PDT by NutCrackerBoy
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To: NutCrackerBoy
Fox News is so unafraid . . . I hope they show what they fought -- a liberated Iraq, Saddam captured, Al Qaeda on the run because they lost their base, terrorists such as Abu Abbas captured, more terrorists under cuffs, and Moammar Al Qaddafi surrendering his weapons of mass destruction.

A new Iraq is under way, and it's an Iraq which will show the world what the legacy of George Washington means . . . freedom from oppression.
19 posted on 05/03/2004 2:21:32 PM PDT by Bobby Chang
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To: brownsfan
They simply announce a death, and the "tragic consequences" while NEVER EVER, EVER, EVER providing the meaning and purpose as to why those people died.

They would answer that the justifications of the war - and its results - are also reported on by ABC, and each person can form their own opinion. Is it your opinion that ABC has failed to adequately cover justifications and results?

20 posted on 05/03/2004 2:21:47 PM PDT by NutCrackerBoy
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