What's wrong with this CNN story on rapidly increasing deaths in IRAQ?

[Jeffersons Ghost]

23 killed in string of Baghdad attacks

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- At least 23 people were killed Saturday in Baghdad in a string of attacks around the capital, police say.

Four of the attacks occurred between 10 and 11 a.m. (0600 and 0700 GMT) while another took place in the early afternoon amid a major security crackdown in the city implemented by the government against insurgents.

The deadliest attack was the suicide car bomb, which targeted an Iraqi army-police patrol in central Baghdad around 11 a.m.

Eleven people, including one Iraqi soldier, were killed and 15 people were wounded, including eight soldiers and three police.

Four mortar rounds slammed into Sarabadi market in the Shiite neighborhood of Kadhimiya in northwestern Baghdad, killing two and wounding 14 others. The incident took place around 10 a.m.

No problems so far but please read the rest of the story:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/17/iraq.main/

[electron_blue]

1. What do you think is wrong with it? Elaborate please

[KharmaTrain]

2. I'm Sure All Those Mourning Families Are Happy It's Not Zarqawi...

:sarcasm:

All week we've heard how wonderful things are in Baghdad cause feckless leader flew in under the dead of night and did the photo op.

BTW...are there any pictures of boooosh's plane coming in or out of the airport or flying over Baghdad? A big plane like that sure should have gotten noticed. Also, how "refreshed" he looked the next day in the Rose Garden...not a bit of jet lag was there?

Methinks that stunt took place in a TV studio in DC...all that was needed was Willie Nelson singing "Old Shoe"...

[Jeffersons Ghost]

12. it looks "wonderful" to me... for insurgents but not us, KharmaTrain...

That was my primary motivation for posting the story

[Recursion]

3. Do you mean the missing US personnel?

That does not bode well.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

18. no it doesn't and it's worth a separate OP on the topic... good point....

Just now, CNN showed their stupidity on the air in a non-human interest story. In reporting some fluff on people trying to save ducklings from snakes the announcer made the remark that DIAMOND-BACK Water-snakes were spooky and dangerous. That species, is non-venomous and actually not even very dangerous to ducklings because it feeds mainly on fish. She apparently thought it was referring to the Diamond-Back Rattler, which is a threatened species in the East.

One of our legacies to Vietnam was to teach them how bad snakes are. A few years ago I read where the Vietnam government had to import pythons because rats had taken hold and people were starving. Like ALL species, there's a reason for snakes in the natural balance of life on this planet.

[peekaloo]

4. 2492?

did 8 soldiers suddenly get better?

[Eugene]

7. You beat me to it.

And great catch, Jeffersons Ghost!

[Hugin]

8. CNN's numbers have ALWAYS lagged the true count.

Maybe at 2500 they decided to start counting backwards...

Like they did for Katrina and the Tsunami?

:shrug:

[Jeffersons Ghost]

10. WE HAVE A WINNER!!! you got it right, peekaloo....

"Friday's death brought to 2,492 the number of U.S. troops killed in the Iraq war. Seven American civilian employees of the military also have died in the conflict."

While, I certainly didn't expect a hard news story to launch into dialog that EACH and every death in IRAQ represents a person, NOT A NUMBER, I did expect them to get the total right.

[Hugin]

13. The "seven" is probably way off as well.

We'll *never* know that count.

[Dhalgren]

5. I don't know.

What do you think is wrong? :shrug:

[Halliburton]

6. they all took place in baghdad during the MAJOR CRACKDOWN

am I correct?

[Dhalgren]

11. Maybe major military actions shouldn't be staged as photo-ops.

It is despicable that the Dictator would use a major military action as a political op. This is what happens when you make broad announcements of what you are about to do in order to win political points at home. The insurgents are far more intelligent than our military, much more motivated, and are fighting on the side of right (in their hearts). If our military continues to make public announcements as to what they are going to do next, so as to affect politics at home, they will continue to get their asses handed to them...

[Jeffersons Ghost]

15. Halliburton, While it wasn't what I was seeking, YOUR ANSWER...

IS ALSO CORRECT! Your words could easily have been the LEAD or HEADLINE, if this story wasn't spun so badly in a pro-war direction. What you write is a potential trigger for increased violence in IRAQ, making it very pertinent, but just didn't seem news-worthy to some editor at CNN. Let's ask ourselves why?

[dogday]

9. Brought the number to 2,492

as always crappy shitty reporting, but we will let it pass cause TO is so much worse....

[Jeffersons Ghost]

20. In my day, "crappy" reporting wasn't the norm but "those times, they...

are a changing."

[dogday]

21. Amen Brother

:hi:

[Jeffersons Ghost]

24. I miss those early days in news... even my first job, which started....

out as an unpaid internship with Project ROSE (Recycled Oil Saves Energy) it was important to stick to the facts, although I was writing P.R. to gain attention for the effort. Dr. Gary April was brilliant and well ahead of his time with his pollution offsetting, recycling project.

[Nimrod2005]

14. I think CNN hates freedom!!! nt

[Jeffersons Ghost]

25. well, I don't know about all that nimrod but they sure don't love FACTS

[Marr]

16. They didn't mention the 5,948,778 people who were *not* killed in Baghdad.

Damn that negative media!!!

[kittenpants]

19. yeah, they never talk about all the cars that don't explode!

[lonestarnot]

17. Awww who's count'n! Their just fucking numbers!

[leftchick]

22. they also are not counting the dead Iraqis throughout the country

only Baghdad.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

23. that's an interesting point. thanks. I didn't realize that leftchick....

Maybe the administration is too dumb to count that high. I suspect that is measured in MILLIONS.

[w8liftinglady]

26. other stories on cnn state 2500...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/06/16/friday/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/06/15/greenfield.deathtoll/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/06/15/us.iraq.ap/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/15/iraq.main/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/06/15/thursday/index.html

seems to me that they must have gotten the talking points..maybe we should point this out?
http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form6.html?1

[Jeffersons Ghost]

27. now there's an idea... we could all email them and demand a retraction....

Perhaps we could say it dishonors our dead to give a faulty count. If you email them, please point out that these are not simply numbers, each click on that toll represents a dead American with a grieving family. Ask not for whom this bell tolls...

[w8liftinglady]

28. exactly...already done.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

29. have you got a link to post w8liftinglady?