Posted on 03/22/2006 5:24:01 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
Today Show/NewsBusters ping.
NBC claims its Iraq coverage not negative enough. Yeah, that's the ticket!
Here's more information on the Ingraham/Gregory confrontation.
I thought about posting a separate thread because ABC's Good Morning America led off with asking readers' to email them from their website about what type of coverage we (the public) would like to read.
I went ahead and emailed them my thoughts.
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/
M.S.M death throes alert!
Well if it's all that bad, why is he standing on a balcony? Has he ever heard of snipers? Bazookas? or American Tanks? ;)
Were there any clips of Engel and ordinary Iraqi citizens and/or children?
That's a predictable result, when you embed yourself with al Qaeda!
Here's a link to a depiction of Ingraham's appearance yesterday on the Today show: "Laura in the Lions Den."
http://newsbusters.org/node/4542
Is it any coincidence that NBC represent the first letters of the phrase
I think not.
I despise them more at times like this than all others combined. They actually believe that we believe they submitted themselves to the tough questions. Pffft.
If NBC believes most Iraqis they speak with, then the reporter's statement constitutes an admission that they are not getting out and getting the REAL STORY about the security situation.
And, if they believe, by their own admission, that they are not getting the real story on the "security situation", why is it that they believe they are reporting the real story regarding the "non security" aspects of life in Iraq?
Ms. Ingraham is correct to challenge the lamstream media to do that, but my guess is that even if they did they'd find a way to spin it negatively. What we need to realize is that the lamestream press has no intention of being objective. When a Republican/conservative is in office, everything is bad, bad, bad. When a liberal 'Rat is in office, everything is great, great, great. Their reports are not information but agitprop. The MSM is an agenda-driven business, and the truth of the matter about any given subject is not a consideration.
We're mostly on our own when it comes to finding out the truth of any story today. Fortunately, we have more resources today to do that than were available in the past. Unfortunately, most people in the country are lazy and willing to believe what they are told than make any effort to find things out for themselves.
Tim Russert forgets what the estimates for deaths were for the initial invasion...He said he could not find one person who expected we would have had 2000 lost..I think he is not being truthful. He went into a list that was pure spin..a pick and choose who said or thought what before the war...without identifying who said it. He has lost any semblance of objectivity.
NBC gets me for local news in the morning many times..The only time I watch their reporting otherwise is because the channel hasn't been changed yet..A pox on them..I am going to watch Fox local channel news.
God Bless and Protect Those Who Protect Us..
FLASHBACK ...
http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2005/cyb20050112.asp#1
Back live indoors, Engel concluded: "Ann, one of the things I'll remember most about this experience was as I was standing there obviously unarmed, feeling very exposed wearing a bright blue flak jacket was there was a soldier standing next to me. I didn't know him I hadn't even noticed him before. And suddenly as the gunshots were coming at us he came over to me and said, 'It's gonna be okay, don't worry.' And he actually stepped right in front of me protecting me with his body and started to return fire at the insurgents. And I just remember thinking that this is one of the small acts of heroism, I think you can say, that I so rarely get a chance to see and even less frequently report about. Ann."
Frankly, neither side has it correct. There are good things happening, as well as an abundance of bad. And the ongoing bad media campaign is sickening.
Frankly the administrations admission the other day that any withdrawl would likely occur on some other administrations watch is a very different story of when we were told we would leave if asked by the Iraqi government.
It could be that we know the government wouldn't ask for at least three more years or now we wouldn't if we were asked.
But back to the media, how many reporters or their crew have been killed, seriously hurt or kidnapped while covering this war. And I bet they weren't all on a balcony.
Laura's comment was a straw man argument.
This morning on Today, we ask "Are journalists doing a bad job covering Iraq?" Let's ask a journalist.
That's pretty funny.
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