One of America's few remaining REAL journalists, Molly Bingham on IRAQ

[LynnTheDem]

Molly Bingham's Iraq: �Not something my audience wants to see.�

Last year, photojournalist Molly Bingham and independent British journalist Steve Connors spent 10 months in Iraq working the �rest of the story� - primarily from the side of the Iraqi resistance. Bingham's mission - find out what makes resistance tick. The result - a documentary by Bingham and Connors that they're finding very difficult to market.

In this past Sunday's Louisville Courier-Journal, Ms. Bingham excerpted a speech she made last month at Western Kentucky University. The article is a broadside shot to the corporate media for not doing their jobs.

--Unfortunately, I think Ms. Bingham is missing a key point - the vast majority of Americans don't want to understand. They don't want to know that a dozen Americans have been killed in Iraq in the past 72 hours, and hundreds of Iraqis have died in the past week - they want to be soothed with the assurances that the U.S. military killed over 100 insurgents in a major offensive against the resistance. And that's what the headlines from CentCom roared yesterday.

Much much more at link;
http://allspinzone.com/blog/index.php?itemid=218

[lala_rawraw]

1. Good girl!!!

[Carolab]

2. Link not working? n/t

[LynnTheDem]

3. Link's working fine for me.

http://allspinzone.com/blog/index.php?itemid=218

[Carolab]

4. Okay. Got it now. Thanks.

Most important to the two photographers is what they learned about the actual people behind the fighting.

"These people are fighting for pride and honor," Bingham said. "Their country was invaded by another country. Their leader, although unpopular, was overthrown, and no one had any say or control in this."

"Many of these people want to die. They aspire to martyrdom. These people are not leading an insurgence. They are resistance fighters. And right now, they are concerned only with getting the U.S. and its supporters out of their homeland," Bingham said.

Connors filmed a documentary while researching around Baghdad. He said that while he has approached television networks with his project, he has not received positive feedback.

"It's the hot potato for television right now," Connors said.

Until the film is aired, the duo will share their research with anyone who is willing to listen in the hopes that people will see the truth.

http://www.quchronicle.com/media/paper294/news/2005/02/23/CampusNews/Journalists.Share.Experiences.From.Within.Iraqi.Opposition-873054.shtml?page=2

[LynnTheDem]

5. Americans can't accept that other people could believe

"Give me liberty, or give me death!"

And that, in fact, is what the Iraqi rebels are saying.

Many Americans seem to feel the Iraqis should be grateful that a "great" nation like America chose their little nothing country to invade; such an "HONOR" to be invaded by the USA.

:sarcasm:

[oblivious]

6. That's an important story. I wonder if they've tried international TV.

I'd love to see something like that on local TV here in Hong Kong. All we get is the invaders' side.

I'd like to try to get it going here, but they don't give her email address anywhere. While googling her name to find her email address I also found these:


http://www.gnn.tv/articles/1370/Home_from_Iraq

I also found two freeper-style critiques:
http://machonachos.redstate.org/story/2005/5/10/83239/2967
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=15796_The_Media_Are_the_Enemy&only=yes

I guess this is what the networks are afraid of. Do they think most of their audience are freepers?

From the article in Lynne's OP:
..Meanwhile, I'm told by another source that “Dateline” executive producer David Corvo recently declined to pick up an hour-long documentary from photojournalist Molly Bingham, who spent four months filming with anti-American insurgents in and around Baghdad. “Really interesting footage,” I'm told Corvo said. “Not something my audience wants to see.”


Anyway, my original point was does anyone know where I can get her email address?