Posted on 12/02/2005 4:58:52 PM PST by bnelson44
The reported “mini-Tet offensive” in Ramadi has turned out to be less than accurate. In fact, it has been anything but. The Associated Press reported a massive citywide insurgent attack, and Reuters and other news outlets quickly picked up on the story.
Captain Jeffery Pool, Public Affairs Officer for the 2nd Marine Division, disputed the claims in the harshest of terms, and rebuked the media for its mis characterization of events. “Today I witnessed inaccurate reporting, use of unreliable sources, media using other media as sources, an active insurgent propaganda machine, and the pack journalism at its worse.”
Cori Dauber, an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, looks at how old Associate Press Television Network footage was used to support the case for the faux “Ramadi Uprising” by all of the news networks, and little has been done to retract the charges.
The AP and other media organizations have bought into a sophisticated and clever al-Qaeda information operation designed to weaken support for the war in the United States and project an image of strength for the insurgency. After al-Qaeda’s defeat along the border, there is a dire need for them to do so.
Operation Shank begins in Ramadi
While the false Ramadi reports continue to filter down, Coalition forces launch the latest offensive in the city. Operation Shank is directed at an unspecified area of the city, and is made up of a battalion-sized assault force “approximately 200 Iraqi Army soldiers from 1st Brigade, 7th Division and 300 Marines from 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment”.
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Perfect. When is Operation MSM Shank going to commence?
It was an outright lie, all things being equal.
That's Operation Shiv.
Time to talk to the Iraqi government an just have them all publicly ordered out of the country just like they did with Jazerra.
...and the pack journalism at its worse.
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Any surprise? The AP and rest of the dysfunctional, lying MSM...just amazing.
Now that W is clearing the air about Iraq, the liberal media gets desperate. They'll make it up if they have to, or work directly with the terrorists.
AP and Reuters both gave up any journalistic integrity about Iraq long ago.
“Today I witnessed inaccurate reporting, use of unreliable sources, media using other media as sources, an active insurgent propaganda machine, and the pack journalism at its worse.”
Now that's a bitch-slap... Of course Reuters would jump at any chance to report anything that makes America look bad.
The AP is, arguably, the worse offender as a biased news source. They don't show up on most radar screens because their product appears everywhere, and it is the masthead of the paper that carries it that stands out. AP bylines provide little clue, since their writers aren't all over the networks and talk shows. In my opinion, they make little effort to be balanced in their reporting, and their clients don't seem to care.
It's so frustrating when you realize that a small team of four or five terrorists can hog news cycle after news cycle simply by placing roadside bombs every few days.
Our brave US forces can wipe out 500 Muslim lunatics WITH THE HELP OF PATRIOTIC IRAQI citizens, yet three terrorists with a half pound of C4 can fool the lazy US reporters and make it look like our military forces are on the defensive.
Is this what you were talking about earlier??
FYI Ping
I wish Iraq would just kick the AP out until they clean up their act. Calling AP a "propaganda arm" of the insurgency would give it a huge credibility problem in selling its subscriptions to other sucker "news" agencies.
The media has really shown itself to be a bunch of naive rubes lately. They've really made fools of themselves this time!
And yesterday, and the day before, and the day before................
Of course this malpractice will be in the spotlight on the Sunday Talk shows. /s
Yes...but, the media is getting back at them for calling them out...by making a hugh story about the so-called propaganda that is being reported in Iraq newspapers, supposedly paid for by the US...
BTW, I have no problem with positive stories being paid to be put in newspapers...as long as it is the truth..which I understand it is.
I think what W needs to say to the country is that there is an element within the country (without naming names) that would break our will to fight, right as we are at the cusp of victory in Iraq. That the battle is here, in hometown America and in the halls of Congress, just as much as in Iraq. We must stay strong, there is no other way to put it but to stay the course. That doesn't mean to stay forever, it means to stay until the job is done. To show the world that when America takes on a herculean task, She completes it. We will complete the job. The Iraqis have the fire in their bellies now and the steel in their eyes. They are ready to fight. They are almost ready to fight on their own when they learn to get the beans and bullets to the front better. The job is almost done. We can do it. Stay strong. Ignore the nattering nabobs of negativism. The effete snobs of elitism. The perfumed princes and eternal purveyors of doom and gloom...
OK, I'm getting a little carried away, but we need a strong pep talk like that.
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