If News From Iraq Is Bad, It's Coming From U.S. Officials

[leftchick]

This is one fascinating analysis of the US coverage of Iraq news. Well worth the read....

http://www.fair.org/extra/0403/iraq-study.html

snip:
<Despite allegations that the media were favoring bad news in Iraq, the study found that while attacks against coalition forces and bombings were reported almost daily, bigger pieces of bad news were virtually ignored or greatly downplayed.

Ten sources talked about civilian casualties and possible human rights violations by coalition troops. Six of these were in one CBS Evening News segment (10/21/03) covering a Human Rights Watch report on abuses of civilians released that day. Despite Human Rights Watch's estimate that "U.S. soldiers killed 94 civilians between May 1 and September 30, 2003, in legally questionable circumstances," ABC and NBC did not find the report worth mentioning. The other four sources discussing civilian casualties and human rights issues appeared in another CBS Evening News piece (10/30/03), on U.S. and British civilians who were shot at by coalition soldiers.

According to a Stars & Stripes (10/15/03) poll that interviewed almost 2,000 U.S. ground troops in Iraq, 49 percent said that their unit's morale was "low" or "very low." This subject of morale was discussed in six stories by 13 current and former military officials--12 percent of military sources in the study. By comparison, 75 percent of military sources discussed tactics and details about missions and attacks. >

[Mari333]

1. Thats why I use the net for all my news sources

the US whore media wont give out one iota of truth about the atrocity and barbarism of this administration, either about the soldiers horrific injuries and deaths, or the civilians injuries and deaths..
Its been sanitized to keep the populace from seeing it and even more so now due to the re selection horseshit.
The blood is on the hands of the media in every way.
http://www.occupationwatch.org
http://www.bringthemhomenow.com

[leftchick]

2. Did you see this Mari?...

Will air March 2 on Nova/PBS....

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/combatdocs/about.html


<While other reporters were embedded in fighting units during the Iraq War, NOVA was covering the emergency medical response, living night and day with the doctors, nurses, and medics in a frontline Combat Support Hospital (CSH). The program captures a period of the conflict in April and May of 2003 when CSH units faced a deluge of injured Iraqi soldiers and civilians who had little support from their country's collapsed health-care system.

A 21st-century version of the Korean War-era MASH, or Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, the CSH is a maze of sleek tents connecting fully equipped operating rooms with X-ray, pharmacy, laboratory, in-patient wards, and other emergency medical services. And like the characters in "M*A*S*H," the television series, the CSH personnel are beset by constant ethical dilemmas that pit the team's commitment to treat injured Iraqis against the messy realities of war. It's a situation in which chance and bureaucratic policy often decide who lives and who dies. (For more on this dilemma, see Tug of War.)>

[Mari333]

3. Thank you , very much

I will watch for it thank you ..PBS often comes thru where all the others fail. On the other hand, how many everyday US citizens watch PBS..makes one wonder. People seem to get their news from sound bytes on Faux or MSGOP. ah well, perhaps someday the truth will come out, but until then more die and are wounded and too many people continue to justify this atrocity.