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The Good News You Missed (press has been focused on the setbacks few know of small triumphs in Iraq)
NY Times ^ | MAY 13, 2005 | ARTHUR CHRENKOFF, HELENE SILVERMAN and NORMAN HATHAWAY

Posted on 05/12/2005 10:20:54 PM PDT by Former Military Chick

The press has been so focused on the setbacks in Iraq that few readers are likely to know about the daily parade of small triumphs.



TOPICS: Editorial
KEYWORDS: iraq
In the NY Times no less.
1 posted on 05/12/2005 10:20:55 PM PDT by Former Military Chick
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To: Former Military Chick

Picks up chin off the floor.


2 posted on 05/12/2005 10:23:52 PM PDT by hipaatwo (When you're in trouble you want all your friends around you...preferably armed!)
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To: Former Military Chick

I'm stuned!


3 posted on 05/12/2005 10:27:50 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs (The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.)
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To: Former Military Chick

Circulation must be way down.


4 posted on 05/12/2005 10:30:17 PM PDT by Rennes Templar ("The future ain't what it used to be".........Yogi Berra)
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To: Former Military Chick

Is this hidden in the obituary column?


5 posted on 05/12/2005 10:31:13 PM PDT by zarf
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To: hipaatwo

With you on that reaction. There must be more to their motives than meets the eye?


6 posted on 05/12/2005 10:36:03 PM PDT by Former Military Chick
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To: Former Military Chick

Dunno. I bookmarked it for posterity. I e-mailed it out to friends. I read somewhere on here the Times was having some sort of a meeting last week about their reporting, anonymous sources, etc. I don't pay attention to much of anything the Times says, this caught me completely off guard. I had to read it twice to make sure it wasn't them backstabbing the troops some more.


7 posted on 05/12/2005 10:40:45 PM PDT by hipaatwo (When you're in trouble you want all your friends around you...preferably armed!)
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To: Former Military Chick
An internal committee at The New York Times has recommended several steps to help increase readers' confidence in the newspaper, including making reporters and editors more accessible through e-mail, reducing errors, and increasing coverage of middle America and religion.
8 posted on 05/12/2005 10:44:49 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Former Military Chick

Some time ago I had written to the Public Editor complaining about the Times's lack of coverage for good news. No doubt many others have done the same. This article could well represent his contribution to fairness at the NYT.


9 posted on 05/12/2005 11:40:30 PM PDT by december12
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To: Former Military Chick

They slowly discovered that being communist stooges was not a money maker. Imagine that!


10 posted on 05/13/2005 12:11:24 AM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot (Not everything that needs to be done needs to be done by the government.)
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To: Former Military Chick

Looks like a paid ad to me


11 posted on 05/13/2005 2:55:16 AM PDT by wastoute
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To: Former Military Chick; leadpenny

Nice find.

lp, pinging you


12 posted on 05/13/2005 3:24:18 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine's brother ( We need a few more Marines like Lt. Gen. James Mattis)
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To: Jimmy Valentine's brother

Thanks. On my way out the door. Read later.


13 posted on 05/13/2005 3:29:52 AM PDT by leadpenny
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To: Former Military Chick

What is the New York Times trying to do, become an actual newspaper after all these years?


14 posted on 05/13/2005 4:02:25 AM PDT by solzhenitsyn ("Live Not By Lies")
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To: Former Military Chick
be it is Boston, Berlin, [etc.]

Yep, the New York Times is saying they're just a corrupt liberal news outlet--but, wait, we're just like all the others. Oh, no, wait, we're not that bad, and to prove it we'll run this display piece showing progress in Iraq.

Doesn't sell. Sorry, it cannot even begin to wash over the crap this paper has been putting out for days, weeks, months on our fighting men and women.

Even TODAY they run a piece entitled "Bombs Kill 21 and Hurt 70 in Baghdad.

What hypocracy. They're disgusting.

15 posted on 05/13/2005 9:13:24 AM PDT by Chairman_December_19th_Society (James Burnham--Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide.)
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