Front page column right in this morning's WaPo

Posted by: DC Loser at July 17, 2005 05:09 PM | Permalink to this comment

New York Times, Late Edition has the story front page column right.

Posted by: Bill Anderson at July 17, 2005 07:09 PM | Permalink to this comment

Gosh Greg, isn't highlighting these stories of death and destruction in Iraq - I think the daily average is around 50 dead ( including those gunned down at check points and along roadsides by US troops with itchy trigger fingers. God only knows how many wounded) - playing into "defeatism"?

Surprising that the "liberal media" doesn't have this stuff front and center every morning. It is their pinko goal to undermine the troops morale and all, right?

I mean what would Jerkoff (Cherkoff? or whatever his name is) say?

Shouldn't we be emphasizing the positive things happening in Iraq? What with front page stories about death and destruction people might get the idea that there is a big messy war on over there. They might even get the idea that things aren't going so well for us; that after two years the road from/to the airport isn't even't secure yet. They might get the idea that we will never succeed and that after ten years of deaths and dismemberments and a trillion dollars spent we may not be further ahead. They may ask for a withdrawal time table......

Nope, best to bury those stories somewhere near the dear Abby column.

Good God man, have you lost your mind?

Posted by: avedis at July 17, 2005 08:14 PM | Permalink to this comment

Suicide terror targets public opinion through disproportionate coverage in the media. In this one case The Times declined to give it disproportionate coverage. Good for them.

Posted by: Tom Paine at July 18, 2005 05:34 PM | Permalink to this comment

60 Iraqi lives don't matter to most newspapers. If there had been a couple of soldiers in the body count, then it would have been front page news.

I think it is more than a "their lives matter too" trend, although the press' unbalanced coverage of Iraqi casualties is pretty glaring (US troop collateral damage--front page; terrorists deliberate targeting of civilians--ho hum). One reason this is getting played down so much is certain organs would rather trumpet the current "the U.S. has made them mad and turned them into terrorist" meme. If that were the case, then those we angered enough to do something would not be targeting oil installations, mosques, children, civilians shopping.

Posted by: ken at July 19, 2005 05:36 PM | Permalink to this comment