Posted on 04/11/2007 9:31:07 AM PDT by verbosevet
In all coverage of the Iraq war, there is ample evidence to suggest a liberal bias. Constant coverage of suicide bombings, pools of blood, wailing women, men screaming for revenge, and Muqtada al Sadr calling for attacks on US forces -from Iran- while there is virtually no mention of any progress being made on the ground.
But by far, the biggest -and most blatant- example of media bias comes in the recent coverage of Defense Secretary Robert Gates' April 4th interview with syndicated radio talk-show host Laura Ingraham. In the interview, Gates was quoted as saying "So far, so good" with respect to military operations in Iraq, even though all forces aren't even in place yet.
Yet despite exhaustive searches on my part of hundreds of search engine results, the only reference to the "so far, so good" comment that I could find came in a Defense Department Article written by Jim Garamone, an American Forces Press Service writer, and a few blogs. The vast majority of news coverage of Ingraham's interview of Gates was an AP or Reuters wire service article that focused on "ethnic cleansing" if the US left Iraq. This demonstrates a fundamental problem with news coverage in the US. The vast majority of newspapers rely on AP or Reuters wire services for their news coverage of national or international events. This means that with the publication of slanted news articles, the entire country gets subjected to a constant daily stream of biased information masquerading as news.
One has to wonder exactly how much this slanted news coverage of the war has affected public opinion, or the opinions of lawmakers who are considering a full-scale retreat. The articles linked here represent but one tiny slice of the news coverage of the Iraq war.
(Excerpt) Read more at warofwits.org ...
It has affected it a whole lot, just as they planned for it to do.
They definitely want us to lose. Their hatred of George W. Bush and this country doesn’t allow them to want victory for our country.
While I was out, waiting for a bus, the waiting area has a television and the Communist News Network was on. I didn’t hear the story but they were showing John McCain and the caption was “Too Optimistic About Iraq?” I couldn’t believe it! My feeling is that the Lamestream Media is too PESSIMISTIC about Iraq! I really hope and pray that all this negativity that they want America to embrace will come back and bite them on their collective rear-ends!
It’s this kind slanting of the news that just infuriates me. Have you noticed how much “news” is created by the MSM itself. Typical is: “An ABC poll has just learned...” as reported on ABC. While it’s been discussed here before, here’s another take on the slant by a Black person and their view of the MSM.
http://www.youtube.com/v/m9Yc3wYJOtI
Coming from CNN is no surprise
And this was FOX.
Polls should not be used as news. They ca completely dependent upon HOW the questions are asked.
Traitors, demonRATs, communists, msm
I could think of a few more, but I would have to be censored...
But when that bias is called "news" instead of "commentary", "OpEd", or "opinion", it crosses the line, and becomes propaganda.
The big difference here, is that conservatives are OPEN about their biases, while liberals hide them, and try to portray themselves as objective journalists, while they're realy portraying an agenda.
Really articulate..I mean it.
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