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No End to Media's Defeatism on Iraq
HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE ^
| 12/14/2005
| by Rich Noyes
Posted on 12/14/2005 10:49:37 AM PST by oxcart
According to an ABC News/Time magazine survey of 1,700 Iraqi citizens, released in advance of historic parliamentary elections on Thursday, surprising levels of optimism prevail in Iraq, according to ABCs polling director, Gary Langer. Despite the daily violence there, most living conditions are rated positively, seven in 10 Iraqis say their own lives are going well, and nearly two-thirds expect things to improve in the year ahead.
Of course, those optimistic Iraqis dont watch ABC, CBS and NBC every night. A new Media Research Center study of network evening news coverage of Iraq during October and November found the networks maintained the same negative approach our team found during a review of Iraq news during the first nine months of 2005. In spite of a successful constitutional referendum in October, the start Saddams trial for mass murder, successful U.S. offensive campaigns along the Syrian border and the return of a number of cities and town to full Iraqi control, the networks continued to offer mainly downbeat coverage of the situation in Iraq.
(Excerpt) Read more at humaneventsonline.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: defeatists; iraq; mediabias
Fantastic article with bar-graphs that even your "color-by-numbers" Liberal friends can understand. Thank you, Mr. Noyes!
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posted on
12/14/2005 10:49:38 AM PST
by
oxcart
To: oxcart
The most reprehensible part of this story is not that the MSM wishes we were failing in Iraq; the MSM wants to be instrumental in causing America to fail.
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posted on
12/14/2005 10:54:25 AM PST
by
Spok
(Est omnis de civilitate.)
To: oxcart
Those dern facts keep getting in the way.
To: oxcart
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posted on
12/14/2005 10:57:28 AM PST
by
Zacs Mom
(Proud wife of a Marine! ... and purveyor of "rampant, unedited dialogue")
To: Spok
"The most reprehensible part of this story is not that the MSM wishes we were failing in Iraq; the MSM wants to be instrumental in causing America to fail."
Correction ~
The most reprehensible part of this story is not that the MSM wishes we were failing in Iraq; the MSM IS INTENTIONALLY AND WILLFULLY WORKING to be instrumental in causing America to fail.
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posted on
12/14/2005 11:03:24 AM PST
by
Zacs Mom
(Proud wife of a Marine! ... and purveyor of "rampant, unedited dialogue")
To: All
ROTFL... and they do this on the economy as well. Then they have the balls to sit there and ask the president "why do you think that you aren't getting any credit" and ponder to each other "why isn't he getting any credit for this good economy". Of course thats all after denying the good economy for dozens of months.
They are sick.
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posted on
12/14/2005 11:09:20 AM PST
by
FreedomNeocon
(I'm in no Al-Samood for this Shi'ite.)
To: oxcart
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posted on
12/14/2005 11:10:53 AM PST
by
Albion Wilde
((America will not run, and we will not forget our responsibilities. – George W. Bush))
To: oxcart
Actually, it might be a good thing. There will be lots of recordings and articles from these idiots to play back and quote when it is impossible to ignore progress in Iraq.
The question is: who will play them.
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posted on
12/14/2005 11:24:19 AM PST
by
dhs12345
(w)
To: Zacs Mom
Thank you, what an excellent site! It would be a very funny site if Iwo Jima had never happend.
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posted on
12/14/2005 11:27:57 AM PST
by
oxcart
To: oxcart
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posted on
12/14/2005 4:13:51 PM PST
by
FreedomNeocon
(I'm in no Al-Samood for this Shi'ite.)
To: oxcart
Well, there's still a lot of disenfranchised camels!
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posted on
12/14/2005 4:15:13 PM PST
by
airborne
(Al-Queda can recruit on college campuses but the US military can't!)
To: oxcart
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posted on
12/14/2005 4:18:42 PM PST
by
Frank Sheed
("Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions." ~GK Chesterton.)
To: FreedomNeocon
HIGHLIGHTS:
Postive, Negative, and 'Neutral' for stories that mixed the two. We could classify only 34 stories (10%) as positive or optimistic, compared to 200 (62%) that emphasized negativity or pessimism about the Iraq mission, a six-to-one disparity. (The remaining 90 stories were neutral.) During the first nine months of the year, we found 211 stories (15%) emphasizing positive developments, compared with 848 (61%) that relayed mainly bad news. For the year, the number of negative stories on Iraq stands at 1,048 (61%), to just 245 positive stories (14%).
One reason for all the negativity was heavy coverage of suicide bombings and other terrorist violence. The networks collectively aired 125 stories about such attacks, about 39 percent of the total. Some of the carnage seemed aimed at getting media coverage, and the networks did not resist those who murdered their way onto TV screens.
The networks also emphasized the number of American dead and wounded in Iraq, with 98 stories on casualties in October and November.
As we found earlier this year, few stories (just five in two months) featured stories of American soldiers heroism, while nearly four times as many (19) focused on allegations of U.S. wrongdoing, including the accidental killing of civilians and claims of prisoner mistreatment.
The networks devoted relatively heavy coverage (64 stories, or 20% of the total) to the debate over the war. That is a significant change in focus from the first nine months of 2005, when such stories only accounted for just seven percent of Iraq news. Continuing a trend that began in August with heavy coverage of Cindy Sheehans anti-war protests, the networks mainly focused on the complaints of those opposed to the administrations Iraq policies.
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posted on
12/14/2005 4:22:24 PM PST
by
FreedomNeocon
(I'm in no Al-Samood for this Shi'ite.)
To: oxcart
ABC News/Time magazine survey of 1,700 Iraqi citizens, released in advance of historic parliamentary elections on Thursday, surprising levels of optimism prevail in Iraq, Surprising only to the MSM that merely publishes the daily Democrat talking points.
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posted on
12/14/2005 4:26:41 PM PST
by
RJL
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