Posted on 08/20/2005 6:21:53 PM PDT by lowbridge
Conservative activist and commentator L. Brent Bozell III recently wrote about an encounter with a veteran:
My son's friend Todd Jones just returned from a tour of duty in Iraq. At a celebratory gathering at his parents' home, we chatted a while, and I asked him what he thought were the biggest problems facing the military. Without hesitating, he shot back: "The terrorists and the media."
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In a rare moment of balance on CBS, Army Capt. Christopher Vick echoed that sentiment: "I think it's hard for Americans to get up every day and turn on the news and see the horrible things that are going on here, because there's no focus on the good things that go on. What they see is another car bomb went off." This kind of coverage is exactly what the terrorists are seeking to achieve, believes Vick.
Mark Yost, who served in the Navy during the Reagan years, caused a stir in media circles for stating the obvious in an editorial in the St. Paul Pioneer Press: "to judge by the dispatches, all the Iraqis do is stand outside markets and government buildings waiting to be blown up."
On CNN's "Reliable Sources," host Howard Kurtz asked Frank Sesno, a former Washington bureau chief for CNN, about the Yost column. Sesno acknowledged you get more depth from print coverage, but suggested "even then, the bias is towards that which is going wrong, that which is blowing up and that which is not working." He said Americans ask: "Is anything getting rebuilt? Are they really democrats over there? How engaged are the Sunnis? Could I see an interview with any of these founding fathers and founding mothers of this new emerging country? Can you find that? You'll have a hard time doing it."
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Mr. Chrenkoff is an Australian blogger. He writes at chrenkoff.blogspot.com.
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Imagine how anyone would feel if their city paper only covered fatal auto accidents and murders.
"I came here for safety, and for my family," says Dr Ali Alwan, 40, an eye specialist who moved from the southern city of Basra to Sulaimaniya in late 2003 and has since encouraged dozens of former colleagues to follow him.
"Here it is a wonderful life. The children are in school, my wife is happy and there is good work," he says. "I don't think I will ever return to Basra."
All republicans have to speak in the same voice.They need to be out there on every show demanding equal time,countering what the dems and the media are saying,they will lose in 06 and 08 if they do not do this now!The dems do it all the time,I fear the rinos are just interested in themselves not the party or the cause.
makes you wonder if the title should really read "The Terrorists are the Media"!!!???
We need more statesmen, and fewer politicians.
Long, good, and amazingly detailed.
Great list of good news.
Good news from Iraq burns liberals like holy water does a vampire!
Great article!
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