[VOA]

Barbara Starr, CNN, the Pentagon.

Now I don't know what to make of CNN reporter Barbara Starr.

Because she nearly made me puke with her pointed questions about
whether some sort of medical care was used to alleviate the suffering
of terrorist Zarqawi after he took a direct hit from one of
our bomb runs.

It was the sort of questioning I expect from some terrorist-
fellow-traveler at the BBC.

[maica]

>>>Now I don’t know what to make of CNN reporter Barbara Starr. <<<

^^^^^

The only show that I watch on CNN is Howie Kurtz’s Reliable Sources on Sunday mornings. The week before last he had Barbara Starr and Robin Wright, “diplomatic correspondent” for the Washington Post as guests to discuss the topic of the coverage of news from Iraq. Specifically the lack of coverage of the reports of Good News from Iraq for the decreasing violence numbers in September.

Both women looked at him with perfectly straight faces and said they saw no problem with the media’s failure to report the good news because, “it may be a trend or it may not be a trend. We have to wait and see.”

Howie then asked them if casualties increased would they wait to report that to see if it was a trend, and both women said that information would definitely need to be reported immediately because “it would be news.”

Neither one exhibited the slightest trace of embarassment or shame or even irony.