[AmericaUnite]

Just that they would use that Gregory character is enough to show me that they are determined to shove their ideas down our throats. Like it or not.

They WILL RULE. (Ya ha ha.)(sarcasm)

[Now, I have to go vomit. You have a strong stomach governsleastgovernsbest.]

[DoctorMichael]

Also..............

Last night on the NBC Nightly Snooze (which I rarely watch) had this story covered in a 4-5 minute piece by the Chris Matthews wanna-be Andrea Mitchell who took the same take line as described above (while trying to appear to be 'fair & balanced', of course).

[small voice in the wilderness]

"Mirror mirror on the wall
Who's the fairest and most balanced, and frankly, not hard-hitting enough, of them all?"

From the files of Snow Job and the Seven Media Midgets.

[Flavius Josephus]

Richard Engel aka "Pretty Chicken."

[Brett66]

"Most Iraqis I speak to say most reporters get it wrong. The situation on the ground is worse than the images we project on television."

I call BS, the first part of that statement is from an Iraqi, the second part is that reporter's opinion. It doesn't matter if they venture out of the green zone or not, the MSM will only pursue stories that validate their biases.

[TET1968]

Now you know why,years ago, right after the merger Ted Turner wanted to use his AOL windfall to purchase NBC.

[Timeout]

NBC actually had a reporter who did just the kind of "human interest" stories Laura alluded to. He spoke fluent Arabic and, as a doctor, he occasionally interacted with Iraqis and provided them with medical care/advice. He was terrific.

Who is he? Dr. Bob Arnot.

And what happened to him? As soon as he started sending in positive on-the-street reports from Baghdad, NBC fired him. I've long wondered why Fox or some other network didn't pick him up.

I looked forward to his reports, mainly because he spoke Arabic so well and could really tell us what was being said. But he was apparently "off the reservation" as far as NBC was concerned. Engle's end-of-the-world reporting is what they wanted.

[Indy Pendance]

Here's the real Iraq. msm can kiss my heiny.

Photos of my soldier in Iraq, enjoy......

More Photos of my soldier in Iraq (Lots of photos)

Brand new photos, lots of them. This will be the last news from Iraq, my soldier is home!

[layman]

The local six o'clock news where I live in Pittsburgh invariably goes like this ..... Two murders last night (video of police placing numbered cards beside bullet casings laying on street) ... House destroyed by fire, family of seven escapes safely (video of firemen watering down smoldering remains) ... Three fatalities on Parkway East (video from helicopter of crushed vehicles) ... Local politician indicted for misuse of funds (video of smiling politician entering courthouse accompanied by four attorneys) ... FBI cracks drug ring (video of handcuffed perps being lead from van into courthouse) ... etc., etc.

I am certain that this representation of life in Pittsburgh is as accurate as NBC's representation of life in Iraq.

[OldFriend]

Mickleschevski (sorry...lol) using the same mantra this morning. Oh the Iraqi's report even more graphic and worse attack pictures than the US press ever does.

[skr]

I can't help but elicit a lady-like snicker at the absurdity of a reoccurring segment titled 'Where in the World is Matt Lauer?'. Why should we care, as long as he is where he is voluntarily?

[subterfuge]

That little girlie-man Engel was on yesterday morning, yesterday evening and then again this morning. Is this homosexual sweeps week or something?

[ElPatriota]

Is it just me?

Just thinking to myself, it's obvious who is the most beautiful of the two (lol), but who is sissiest of the two? ... you know what I mean?... As beautiful as Laura is, she has more ba--s than boy Gregory, in my opinion :)

[Beckwith]

NBC's role is to criticize, not be criticized.

Their's is to judge, not be judged.

You need to understand the liberal intelligentsia's mindset.

[loveliberty2]

Timeout posted: "NBC actually had a reporter who did just the kind of "human interest" stories Laura alluded to. He spoke fluent Arabic and, as a doctor, he occasionally interacted with Iraqis and provided them with medical care/advice. He was terrific. Who is he? Dr. Bob Arnot. And what happened to him? As soon as he started sending in positive on-the-street reports from Baghdad, NBC fired him. I've long wondered why Fox or some other network didn't pick him up.

"I looked forward to his reports, mainly because he spoke Arabic so well and could really tell us what was being said. But he was apparently "off the reservation" as far as NBC was concerned. Engle's end-of-the-world reporting is what they wanted."

Great point!! Dr. Arnot came back with terrific stories about what attitudes among Iraqis were, about the wonderful services our troops were doing on behalf of the lives and liberties of the citizens of Iraq; and what did NBC do? It replaced his coverage with more gloom-and-doom-anti-Bush reporting.

So much for NBC's "objective" information gathering on behalf of the "American people" they love to cite as being against the President's efforts in Iraq!

[WalterSkinner]

..having had a brush with death through illness and having been in a war zone recently has given Laura an edge and power to her words that border on the prophetic--she absolutely took Gregory's head off on national t.v.

[LK44-40]

I've been watching CBS lately and have a mixed report.

In a period of about a week (last week) I saw three strikingly posiitve reports -- two on the Evening News and one on 60 Minutes. I believe one of them was the report referred to by the president on Monday. A CBS reporter was out with the troops in a pacified town and showed a very grateful Iraqi populus and some impressive young soldiers.

Another report related to the war was a very touching account of a group of citizen volunteers who make it their business to provide a little homecoming welcome for troop planes refueling in Maine as they return to the U.S.

On the other side, CBS has been about to wet themselves with the desire to label the current situation a "civil war." I consider this extremely biased and irresponsible. They ellucidate nothing whatsoever by -- if they are successful -- reducing the complexity there to a catch phrase. In fact, they distort reality forcing it into a category that will turn some crucial, half-attentive public opinion from uncertain to dispairing. And they are obsessed with doing this.

[Political Junkie Too]

Ingraham made evening appearances on the O'Reilly Factor

O'Reilly tried to get Ingraham to say that the media is actively undermining the United States operations in Iraq. Ingraham wouldn't go that far, but she did agree that the MSM is blinded by their hatred for Bush, and may not be seeing the impacts of their reporting decisions.

-PJ

[finnman69]

Clearly Ingraham struck a nerve. NBC, and MSNBC both spent an enormous amoutn of time on the nightly news and Hardball on this. Olbermann did too, but I turned him off the second the show came on.

[finnman69]

Gregory, James Carvill and others are screaming "80 journalists have been killed in Iraq"

http://www.rsf.org/special_iraq_en.php3

Actually the actual number is 60 plus 26 assitants (translators,drivers, etc)

Out of these, only a handful are Western Journalists.

13.03.2006 - Muhsin Khudhair, Alef Ba

11.03.2006 - Amjad Hameed, Al-Iraqiya

07.03.2006 - Monsef Al-Khalidi, Baghdad TV Sat Channel

23.02.2006 - Atwar Bahjat, al-Arabiya TV

23.01.2006 - Hamza Hussein, sport journalist at private TV station Al-Diyar

28.11.2005 - Akeel Abdul Rwdha, AL-Iraqia

07.11.2005 - Ahmed Hussein Al Maliki, Tall Afar

19.10.2005 - Mohamed Haroun, Union of Iraqi Journalists general secretary

21.09.2005 - Firas Al-Maadhidi, Al-Safir

20.09.05 - Hind Ismail, Al-Safir

19.09.2005 - Fakher Haydar Al-Tamimi, New York Times

27.08.2005 - Rafed Al Rubaii, Al Irakiya

02.08.05 - Steven Vincent, freelance journalist

22.06.2005 - Yasser Al Salihy, Knight Ridder

03.07.2005 - Maha Ibrahim, Baghdad TV

01.07.2005 - Khaled Sabih al Attar, al-Iraqia

28.06.2005 - Wael Al Bakri, Al Charkiyah

22.06.05 - Jassim Al Qais, Al Siyada

15.05.2005 - Najem Abed Khodair, Al-Madaa and Tariq al-Shaab

15.05.2005 - Ahmad Adam, Al-Madaa and Sabah

23.04.2005 - Saleh Ibrahim, Associated Press

15.04.2005 - Shamal Abdallah Assad, Kirkuk TV, Kurdsat

14.04.2005 - Ali Abrahim Aissa, Al-Hurriya TV

14.04.2005 - Fadel Hazem Fadel, Al-Hurriya TV

01.04.2005 - Ahmed Jabbar Hashim, Al Sabah

14.03.2005 - Houssam Hilal Sarsam, Kurdistan-TV

10.03.2005 - Laik Ibrahim, Kurdistan-TV

25.02.2005 - Raeda Mohammed Wageh Wazzan, Iraqiya

09.02.2005 - Abdel Hussein Khazaal, Al-Hurra TV

01.11.2004 - Dhia Najim, Reuters

27.10.2004 - Liqaa Abdul-Razzaq, Al-Sharqiya

14.10.2004 - Karam Hussein, European Pressphoto Agency

14.10.2004 - Dina Mohamad Hassan, Al Hurriya Television

7.10.2004 - Ahmad Jassem, Nivive television

12.09.2004 - Mazen al-Tomaizi, Al-Arabiya

26.08.2004 - Enzo Baldoni, Diario della settimana

15.08.2004 - Mahmoud Hamid Abbas, ZDF

15.08.2004 - Hossam Ali, freelance

03.06.2004 - Sahar Saad Eddine Nouami, Al-Mizan, Al-Khaima, Al-Hayat Al-Gadida

27.05.2004 - Kotaro Ogawa, Nikkan Gendai

27.05.2004 - Shinsuke Hashida, Nikkan Gendai

07.05.2004 - Mounir Bouamrane, TVP

07.05.2004 - Waldemar Milewicz, TVP

19.04.2004 - Assad Kadhim, Al-Iraqiya TV

26.03.2004 - Bourhan Mohammad al-Louhaybi , ABC News

18.03.2004 - Ali Abdel Aziz, Al-Arabiya

18.03.2004 - Ali Al-Khatib, Al-Arabiya

18.03.2004 - Nadia Nasrat, Diyala Television

28.10.2003 - Ahmed Shawkat, Bila Ittijah

17.08.2003 - Mazen Dana, Reuters

02.07.2003 - Ahmad Karim, Kurdistan Satellite TV

07.04.2003 - Julio Anguita Parrado, El Mundo

07.04.2003 - Christian Liebig, Focus

08.04.2003 - Tarek Ayoub, Al Jazeera

08.04.2003 - Taras Protsyuk, Reuters

08.04.2003 - José Couso, Tele 5

04.04.2003 - Michael Kelly , Washington Post

02.04.2003 - Kaveh Golestan , BBC

23.03.2003 - Terry Lloyd, ITV News

22.03.2003 - Paul Moran, Australian Broadcasting Corporation

26 Media assistants killed


11.03.2006 - Anwar Turky, Amjad Hameed’s driver, Al-Iraqiya

23.02.2006 - Adnane Kahïnallah, sound recordist Al-Arabiya

23.02.2006 - Khaled Mahmoud Al-Falahi, cameraman Al-Arabiya

25.01.2006 - Mahmoud Zaal, Television cameraman at Baghdad TV satellite channel

16.01.2006 - Luaay Salam Radeef, Al-Baghdadia Cameraman

10.01.2006 - Allan Enwiyah, American journalist Jill Carroll’s interpreter

21.09.05 - Ahlam Youssef , Al-Iraqiya TV

17.09.2005 - Sabah Mohssin, Al-Iraqiya

28.08.2005 - Waleed Khaled, Reuters TV

23.07.2005 - Adnan Al Bayati, Rai, Mediaset, TG3 and Panorama

02.09.2004 - Ismaïl Taher Mohsin, Associated Press

25.08.2004 - Jamal Tawfiq Salmane, Gazeta Wyborcza

29.05.2004 - Mahmoud Ismael Daood, bodyguard, Al-Sabah al-Jadid

29.05.2004 - Samia Abdeljabar, driver, Al-Sabah al-Jadid

27.05.2004 - Muhammad Aldin, translator, Le Soir

25.05.2004 - Unknown, translator

21.05.2004 - Rachid Hamid Wali, cameraman assistant, Al-Jazira

29.04.2004 - Hussein Saleh, driver, Al-Iraquiya TV

26.03.2004 - Omar Hashim Kamal, translator, Time

18.03.2004 - Majid Rachid, technician, Diyala Television

18.03.2004 - Mohamad Ahmad, security agent, Diyala Television

27.01.2004 - Duraid Isa Mohammed, producer and translator, CNN

27.01.2004 - Yasser Khatab, driver, CNN

07.07.2003 - Jeremy Little, sound engineer, NBC

06.04.2003 - Kamaran Abdurazaq Muhamed, translator, BBC

22.03.2003 - Hussein Othman, translator, ITV News