Posted on 01/19/2007 8:54:17 PM PST by tobyhill
Back in the United States from Baghdad, NBC News correspondent Jane Arraf, who joined NBC last year after eight years with CNN, conceded that life in Iraq “isn't entirely what it seems” from the constant media focus on bombings. In studio with Brian Williams on Friday's NBC Nightly News, she acknowledged how journalists are “really good at getting across the relentless bombing and the violence, but it's really a lot harder for us to portray those spaces in between. I mean, for us, we live in the city. It's as secure as it can be, but we wake up to the sound of car bombs. We feel the mortars sometimes. And in a horrible, inevitable way, it becomes sort of like the weather, and it's kind of the same for Iraqis. Unless they're in the middle of it, life looks amazingly normal."
Williams noted how “we get asked all the time....where's the good news we know is going on there?" Arraf conceded there's “a piece of good news that's out there every day that's really hard for us to get at,” and that's how “there are children walking to school, there are girls and boys, there are Iraqi girls who are walking to school, and it's that wonderful sign of resilience that is the fabric, the background of life there.” But, “to go out and do that story....we'd probably be putting those children in danger because that is the nature of television.”
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Put them in danger by doing a story about going to school?
I guess I'm more out of step with the MSM than I thought. I just don't see a scrap of logic here.
MSM gives coverage to terrorists...
Hard to get good news through the censors at PravdABDNC:
Monday June 26, 6:42 AM
Iraq's oil production back above 2.5 million barrels a day: minister
Iraq's oil production is now over 2.5 million barrels a day, a record since the fall of Saddam Hussein, the country's oil minister said.
Oil Minister Hussein Shahristani said on US television that Iraq hoped to be producing 4.3 million barrels by 2010 and to be challenging Saudi Arabia as the world's largest producer by 2015.
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Production was about 2.5 million dollars a day when President Saddam Hussein was deposed by US-led forces in 2003. It then collapsed to virtually nothing and has been slow to rebuild because of insurgent attacks and other problems.
In an interview with CNN television, Shahristani emphasized that only one month and three days after the Iraqi government took office "we have been able to break a record".
"Today's oil production was in excess of 2.5 million barrel a day. And that's a record since the fall of Saddam's regime in April 2003," he told CNN's "Late Edition" programme.
He said Iraq hoped to increase production to 2.6-2.7 million barrels by the end of the year, to 4.3 million barrels by 2010, which would be a new all-time record for Iraq. The minister said Iraq's highest oil production was 3.5 million barrels a day.
"Our ultimate aim is to reach more than six million barrels a day, hopefully by 2012.
"And needless to say, Iraq holds one of the largest reserves of oil and gas in the world, and we are determined to prove it has the largest world reserve."
The oil minister said that by 2015, Iraq could challenge Saudi Arabia as the world's largest oil producer.
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The nature of television? Or the nature of the enemy?
The MSM is a bunch of lying whores who's running scared now that the cat's being let out of the bag. If the troop "surge" works with violence going down and no massive increase in troop deaths then people will start questioning what they have been getting from the media.
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Ping
"people will start questioning what they have been getting from the media"
I don't agree. The DUmmies will make up stories about the stories being faked, and any pictures and/or film was shot on the same soundstage that the moon landing was done on.
And besides, it's all a plot by Rove to prop-up Bush's Presidency.
I see. So instead, you do relentless stories about how terrible Iraq is for the US and the Iraqis. Which, of course, as you well know, undermines support for our presence there and puts pressure on the US to withdraw. Which, inevitably, would end those wonderful days of girls walking to school forever.
How wonderful it must be to be so blind.
They miss a whole lot of the good news on Iraq, and I cannot believe it's by accident or inadvertent. The relentless drum beat of bad news with its constant motif of failure is a deliberate attempt to undermine the mission, erode the confidence and morale of the American people. Even here at freerepublic there are people who are convinced that Iraq is nothing but death and destruction, a nation in chaos. Other nations, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Colombia to name a few, have passed through these types of insurgent campaigns. Today, they're fairly stable with Colombia being the least normal. I remember in the 80's some of the same people who want to turn Iraq over to the terrorists wanted then to turn El Salvador over to the communists. These people are consistent. They remain opposed to America and willing to give in to any enemy.
I think I have read that if the media were to go out and do a positive story about the school, that school would then become a terror target...
Evidently you haven't heard how crazy Islamofascists are.
Their's is a ten o'clock news of reality. With this difference: if the news reported every incidence of violence in a city like Dallas over any 24 hours. people would be afraid to go out of their homes.
The news is the news in Iraq.
There you have it. The same journalists that went to school thinking they could change the world for the better are now playing fecal spoons rather than helping the citizens of Iraq and our troops mission.
Meanwhile our own Diogenes has been posting the good news in photos and description often, here on FR. Amazing, none of the people in those photos appear to have been targeted.
I love this reader comment:
"jdhawk Says:
January 20, 2007 - 01:43
This statement is particularly galling, "I worked under Saddam Hussein in Saddam's Iraq, and this is harder now than it ever was then." This "journalist" was employed by CNN. The same "news" outlet that admitted that they regularly publised false stories at the behest of Hussein so that they could maintain the presence in the country. So, whatever she said, saw, or did during that period is simply suspect to me. Since Hussein was deposed, we and our allies have found graves with hundreds of thousands of corpses nearly all with signs of torture before they were murdered. If she and her ilk missed that, why is it surprising that they "miss" the goods news now.
Our drive-by media has given the communists a pass for decades and now the islamo terrorists. It is just incredible that more Americans aren't outraged and fed up by their actions.''
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