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Topic: Tell big media: 'Stop bashing America and our soldiers'
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Caretaker
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http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040520-115221-2362r.htm
Positive human-interest accounts about the armed forces are rare. The press tends to ignore battlefield vignettes from military news services, which could offer an expanded perspective to the public.
For example, 30 U.S. airmen and soldiers delivered school supplies and toys — gifts from American children — to an Iraqi village on Monday. Yesterday, Air Force medical teams airlifted a critically ill Iraqi infant and her mother to an Ohio hospital for treatment.
The news focus is elsewhere.
Earlier this week, Reuters news service announced that three of its "journalists" — actually two Iraqi cameramen and a driver under contract — had been beaten and taunted by Army paratroopers in January.
But an Army investigation released yesterday cleared the soldiers of charges and categorized the incident as "a closed case."
The report noted that "the soldiers clearly believed that these same Iraqis had attacked them previously" and pronounced that the charges of humiliation made by the Iraqis against the soldiers "are not credible."
Tim Graham of the Media Research Center (MRC) noted yesterday that the "gay marriage story" overtook the prisoner abuse story in the press, but only for a day.
"This abuse story is just not going away. It's still the first topic on most network news," Mr. Graham said. "And there's strong focus on the court-martials, on the bad apples — it's as if those troops represent the military at large, as far as the media is concerned. That is very discouraging."
The center has been following "the bias problem" among broadcasters who use the abuse story to build a case against the war in Iraq and the Bush administration. As a sample, the group tracked abuse stories from April 29 through May 11 on NBC and found that the network aired 58 stories on the abuse in that period.
The MRC also found, however, that in the past year, NBC had aired only five stories on mass graves found in Iraq from the Saddam Hussein era.
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Paula
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Originally posted by WildB:
http://www.ronaldreagan.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php/ubb/get_topic/f/15/t/000300.html
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Thanks so much for this update, WildB. While I don't condone prisoner abuse, it's hard not to notice how the Nick Berg beheading has quickly been brushed under the carpet by the alphabet channels. I couldn't find anything on it in the Sunday paper. The biases of the libs sure is showing its ugly head. So I've signed the petition contained in your link, and forwarded it to several people.
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Tyme
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But people love to say "Liberal Left-Wing" as a curse or an insult.
Tyme.
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Niedziejkore
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Oh, and don't forget... it's not just the "liberal" media talking about Abu Ghraib... our entire government is as well.
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Niedziejkore
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What is so signifigant about Nick Berg?
I'm not here to say it wasn't barbaric and unjustified, but really, what is the significance of reporting his death any more then they already have? By now we all know the whole story. Do you expect liberal media to put a hold on all investigations into Abu Gharib and talk about the Berg case? I think the purpose of these media investigations is to determine wether or not Abu Gharib was an isolated incident.
Now, if our soldiers are violating the geneva convention i'm going to "bash" them so to speak. I'm going to voice my opinion and say those soldiers are sick individuals, which they are. Have you seen the photos? And there are still "Top-Secret" photos that have not been put out to the public. The Abu Gharib incident is very significant. Nick Berg, unfortunately is not.
It's very sad that Berg died that way. It was a very pointless death. And on top of that he was decapitated on television... we are dealing with inhuman fundamentalists here.
I know the abuses committed against us are worse than the abuses we carried out at Abu Ghraib, but we're americans.
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