Press slants Iraq news: Dem congressional visitors speak out.

The Hill ^ | Sept. 22, 2003 | Hans Nichols

[Gorilla44]

About damn time.

[MEG33]

Astounding!

[StarfireIV]

What! I thought Mr. Franken and Mr. Alterman said that there is no media bias. ~wink~

[BigDaddyTX]

Sounds like future Arkancide candidates to me

[solzhenitsyn]

The truth begins to leak out. Thank you very, very much for posting this article. I needed the encouragement.

[God luvs America]

jeeez...had these people visited FreeRepublic.com they would've found this out and not needed to travel halfway around the world.....

Let's do our own poll; everytime you hear this story on the news post here when you heard it and what station it was on!

[OldFriend]

Why just recently Joe Conason wrote all about how the media is right wing and pro Bush.

[Dolphy]

Oh, oh, if Wussly Clark reads this, especially about our innovative troops, he will have to switch positions on the war and the budget request again. On second thought maybe he won't. He rather likes the media's version of reality, after all, they claim him to be the Dem front-runner after 3 days.

[PretzeLogic]

it's about time somone started asking reporters to do more than talk to one another

[mystery-ak]

About damn time....and I didn't have to go to Iraq to know this...too bad, this will get very little air time....the media has chosen how they will report the Battle of Iraq.

[GOPJ]

Maybe these reporters are waiting for Saddam's Information Officer to appear, collect his money and cell phones, and offer them lies to print. It's easy.

Or maybe the old days of covering for Saddam's rapists, keeping the lid on stories about torture chambers etc., was more fun. They're too bored to leave the hotel.

Or maybe it's the obvious: trashing Bush and the military is all they know. New York, Paris, or Baghdad is the same. No need to leave a hotel for that type of reporting. Lazy.

Send them home, let them do a Jason Blair. They can write lying claptrap from home easier and cheaper.

Marshall also claimed that there now are only 27 reporters in Iraq, down from 779 at the height of the war. “The reporters that are there are all huddled in a hotel. They are not getting out and reporting,” he told The Hill.

[GOPJ]

Maybe these reporters are waiting for Saddam's Information Officer to appear, collect his money and cell phones, and offer them lies to print. It's easy.

Or maybe the old days of covering for Saddam's rapists, keeping the lid on stories about torture chambers etc., was more fun. They're too bored to leave the hotel.

Or maybe it's the obvious: trashing Bush and the military is all they know. New York, Paris, or Baghdad is the same. No need to leave a hotel for that type of reporting. Lazy.

Send them home, let them do a Jason Blair. They can write lying claptrap from home easier and cheaper.

Marshall also claimed that there now are only 27 reporters in Iraq, down from 779 at the height of the war. “The reporters that are there are all huddled in a hotel. They are not getting out and reporting,” he told The Hill.

[prairiebreeze]

“We came away with the realization that a lot of the debate back here is really irrelevant.”

Just DUH!

Prairie

[sarasmom]

“We came away with the realization that a lot of the debate back here is really irrelevant.”

Debate for the sole sake of debate is a pointless exercise in futility.
One "debates" when there exists a serious alternative viewpoint, with concerns that should be addressed.
Well, at least that is how it used to work in the real world. Now, any physcho with an opinion deserves the attention of the nation while the "opinion" is debated.
We cant just laugh at them, or ignore them anymore.
No, we must "debate".
No child left behind, at work in the adult world.

[lainde]

Good news for a change!

[WOSG]

“We came away with the realization that a lot of the debate back here is really irrelevant.”


They are meaning that the debate here is based on phony and false premises due to media's horrible reporting,that it makes it irrelevent to Iraq's real future.

[sarasmom]

Well, thats a nicer way to say the press and the Democrat party is full of phychos.

[Right_in_Virginia]

BTTT

[Elkiejg]

This is beginning to make the news - see post today "Inside Politics - 9/23"

[FreedomPoster]

Index bump. The story is starting to come out.