I was actually surprised that what you term “the loud and repeated broadcast” of that one atrocity was actually NOT played up the way I thought it would be. The military itself effectively curtailed that, though, by facing up to it, and dealing with the criminal soldiers. If there had been a strenuous cover-up, the war’s opponents and the Press would’ve REALLY played it up.And (IIRC) it wasn’t the “loud and repeated broadcast” that was used “as an excuse” by our enemy for what they did later. We actually put the pieces together for the kidnapping and murder of our 2 soldiers AFTER the rape and murder crime was committed, but before it was ever revealed to us here in the US by the press or anyone else.At least that’s the way I remember it. The kidnapping and murder of our soldiers looked like just another Jihadist/Islamic atrocity, unconnected to any “revenge” motif, until it was linked with the rape/murder of the girl and her family.
Actually, the case was well under way in the investigation phase before the media grabbed hold of it as yet another example of American evil. It did receive several days coverage on our national and international news services and was referenced as an example of soldiers gone wild for some time after that.
The locals had assumed it had been jihadi that had done the rapes. It was just another in a long laundry list of murders and abuses committed by the death cultists, to them.
The media had nothing to do with the case being brought to trial, served no purpose, what so ever, except to openly and aggressively offer up an example to our enemy on why the population should rally around them and fight us.
Some time later, American soldiers were kidnapped and murdered.
When the issue of why began to be talked about by our media, at first it was our own talking heads in the betrayer media that offered up revenge for the rape and murder as an excuse for the atrocity.
That was mirrored a few days later in a sort of “yeah, yeah...ummm... revenge for the rape and murder...yeah, that’s the ticket, that’s why we did it...honest.” release from the murder/death cultists involved in the kidnap, torture and murder of our soldiers.