Posted on 11/06/2006 12:08:31 AM PST by Zakeet
We are told by careful pollsters that half of the American people believe that American troops should be brought home from Iraq immediately. This news discourages supporters of our efforts there. Not me, though: I am relieved. Given press coverage of our efforts in Iraq, I am surprised that 90% of the public do not want us out right now.
Between Jan. 1 and Sept. 30, 2005, nearly 1,400 stories appeared on the ABC, CBS and NBC evening news. More than half focused on the costs and problems of the war, four times as many as those that discussed the successes. About 40% of the stories reported terrorist attacks; scarcely any reported the triumphs of American soldiers and Marines. The few positive stories about progress in Iraq were just a small fraction of all the broadcasts.
When the Center for Media and Public Affairs made a nonpartisan evaluation of network news broadcasts, it found that during the active war against Saddam Hussein, 51% of the reports about the conflict were negative. Six months after the land battle ended, 77% were negative; in the 2004 general election, 89% were negative; by the spring of 2006, 94% were negative. This decline in media support was much faster than during Korea or Vietnam.
(Excerpt) Read more at opinionjournal.com ...
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
The socialist/Marxist/liberal media is the most destructive, relentless, and ruthless enemy of this Republic.
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Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the press, for they will steal your HONOR. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse. -Mark Twain
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"A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly against the city. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in the accents familiar to his victim, and he wears their face and their garments and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared. The traitor is the plague." - Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Orator --- 106-43 B.C.
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The DBM has learned alot from Uncle Walter Cronkite
And the public has learned alot more through the internet
You know what is surprising is just how brain dead they are not to realize what's going on around them
Excellent article.
Thanks for posting.
A must read. Bump.
Be interesting to add a question to the poll, where do you get most of your news?
I can't remember the last time I tuned into any of the network news broadcasts. I used to watch quite a few of the "magazine" type shows.
Bet a good chunk of the 50% have done like I have, tuned out the network news.
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I have taken the NO DBM pledge and have maintained about a 90% level since 2002!
That is about the percentage of stories that are anti-Republican during this election too.
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The issue continues to be: How do we get accurate news DESPITE the lamestream media?
Complaining about their bias isn't the issue. The issue is overcoming them and getting the news out anyway.
BTTT
Bump and bookmarked
One answer to the differences between WWII reporting and current propaganda:
The Sedition Act and Military censors put the lives of troops and victory first.
Jail and a firing squad do wonders for pompous traitors willingness to "cooperate" in the war effort.
>>The DBM has learned alot from Uncle Walter Cronkite
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>>And the public has learned alot more through the internet
Let's hope enough have learned more through the internet, to overcome those brainwashed by the DBM, in this election cycle.
Over time, the real story will come out, and it bodes well for our prospects long-term.
How about that weekend long "Broken Government" programming played on cnn?
cnn is like the dragon breathing it's last firey breath before it's fall.
sickening, hatefilled, insane.
James Q. Wilson at his best...
http://www.clermontyellow.accountsupport.com/flash/UntilThen.swf
If only the press would report on this!
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