The latest casualty: Detailed foreign news

The Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | 12/03/06 | Trudy Rubin

[Starman417]

Talk about an article that will make you gag.

According to Trudy us bloggers and alternative media types are eeeeviiiiillll biased reporters of lies and the MSM are full of competent reporters.

Sure thing Trudy

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

The media didn't seem browbeaten.

Sorry for all of these webpage questions. If you use Internet Explorer or Opera, http://www.freerepublic.com/~jedimasterpikachu/ is very unorganized. If you know how to fix it, could you freepmail?

[Incorrigible]

Are these the same reporters that spoke with fictional Iraqi commanders?

[SevenofNine]

Hey Trudy I get majority of my news from FR, SKY news, Drudge report

You just acting like whiney little b***h nobody pay attention to you

[RedRover]

I don't think Trudy realizes there are Freepers in Iraq.

[Blueflag]

" ... but their gutsy reporting turned out to be on the mark. "


BWAHAHAHAHAAAAA

RFOLMAO

Ask the service men and women how gutsy these reporters were. MOST were GUSTY, not guTsy.

[sono]

No media bias? Think again.

[ScaniaBoy]

Has Trudy read this article?

Embedded Reporter Upbeat About Iraq

I guess not.

An interesting quote:

........The Baghdad Brigade, as I call it, operating out of these hotels -- not only would you think that they don't deserve credence, but time and time again when you look at the stories they write about non-Baghdad areas, you find that they're wrong.

Q: You don't have to pull a name out of the hat, but give me an example of that.

This is actually quite important. The Los Angeles Times, right after my next to last embed in April, reported that apparently there was another Fallujah style, Operation Phantom Fury (type attack) about to be carried out any day against Ramadi -- and it talked about huge numbers of forces being brought up and this and that -- and, of course, we now know it never took place. But, the fact is at the time, there were five reporters listed as chief, secondary, and then contributors. Four were Baghdad-based and one was based in Washington, D.C. So, is it a coincidence that they were completely wrong about this? No, not really. If they had someone in Ramadi, they wouldn't have written the story. You can't do these things out of Baghdad and you sure as heck can't do them out of the District of Columbia (laughs).

[Eagles6]

Trudy smokes the good stuff.

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[MNJohnnie]

You mean the people who never leave the Green Zone merely pay Iraqi stringers, usually active members of the Terrorist Groups to tell them the "news"? THIS is what constitutes heroes to the Junk Media? These people who do not DO anything but sit around like CNN waiting for the Terrorist to send them sniper footage or other terrorist propaganda like the absurd video about supposed survivors from "Massacre" at Haditha?.

MEANWHILE Mike Yon and Ollie North ACTUALLY go out and hang with the troops. Sorry but the Junk Media scores a perfect I as far as Journalism from Iraq goes. Incomplete, Incompetent and Incorrect

[ExtremeUnction]

I don't think Trudy realizes there are Freepers in Iraq.

Let's tell Trudy what we really think here..

trubin@phillynews.com.

[MNJohnnie]

Anyone notice but basically this whole column is Trudy begging "PLEASE don't lay me off! Please keep me! I am important! I do serious work! Don't fire me!"

[Cricket24]

That article is pure rubbish!

[RedRover]

Excellent!

[John Jorsett]

One group of Americans who can be proud of their work in Iraq are the print media correspondents based in Baghdad.

Like those non-existent Muslims who were supposedly burned alive outside a mosque, according to equally non-existent "police captain" Jamil Hussein? That's the kind of work you're proud of? Are you proud that the US military finally had to set up a website to debunk your fraudulent/dishonest/slipshod stories, because nobody would report the actual facts? Puhleeze.

[etradervic]

It sounds like they are happy that there so many casualties in Iraq. It makes their day. If we lost in Iraq and left in disgrace like we did in Nam, they would be in utter ecstasy.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

You really need a barf bag for this drivel.

[dufekin]

Trudy does have a point. Long after we obliterate the Iranian and Syrian proxy armies, foreign terrorists, and all other enemies of the United States in Iraq, the media will continue to spread enemy propaganda with no basis in reality. Because the few American media personnel in Iraq all collude and lack meaningful competition, the American people never will hear any indication of our painstakingly slow and meticulous drive to victory, especially as it happens but even after it becomes plainly apparent to anyone not affiliated with the enemy propagandists.

The media give aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States, rally their troops against us, and unite the American people in opposition to military measures necessary for victory.

[elhombrelibre]

The news media and the terrorists have a symbiotic relationship; they need each other. The media assures that the most defeatist Democratic outlook is presented and magnify every attack to assure maximum propaganda for the terrorists. The media is basically on the enemies side. I saw battles in Iraq where we killed over a thousand so-called "insurgents" with the loss of a few American soldiers and the success of our efforts then was barely reported. If this guy thinks the relentless pro-terrorist propaganda churned out by the print media is so accurate, then he's obviously cheering for the wrong side. They're all blinded by their hatred for Bush and their indifference to the cruelties of our enemies.