If we are there for their benefit, shouldn't the media be more concerned about them?
How is the war effecting the man in the street?
What kind of life is possible?
2006-11-14 09:29:24 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Media & Journalism
It has to do with how few reporters there are in Iraq. Most media outlets place one 'second-string' journalist in the Green Zone in Baghdad. This guys job is to buy footage from freelance Iraqi cameramen and to read scripts faxed to him from New York.
If you want a laugh, take a careful look at the background when the reporters read their scripts. Then switch to another news station and notice that this different reporter is standing in the same spot.
You are getting the cheapest news that will produce the highest ratings. Actually giving you an accurate idea as to what is going on is not 'good business.'
2006-11-14 10:53:25 · answer #1 · answered by MikeGolf 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have heard that many people are interviewed but the media found that reports that were printed were the cause of great problems in Iraq.
I do not have proof but I read one report where it was stated that each Iraqi that made a report and it was published was hunted down and killed by the insurgents. The insurgents do not want any good news to get out of the country...
Take this for what you will but I accept that reason as I am sure our boys would not make up that type of story.
2006-11-14 17:49:34 · answer #2 · answered by Molly 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Every day ordinary Iraqi citizens are being interviewed by several media sources. Somtimes there are just more important issues to report.
2006-11-14 17:32:43 · answer #3 · answered by ©2009 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
For the same reason mass shooters never get arrested, go to trial, give testimony. Often they get killed beforehand and little if anything they say gets quoted. The facts will get out. It won't make government look good to put it mildly.
2006-11-14 17:32:03 · answer #4 · answered by vanamont7 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The media is afraid they might get a positive answer and this would not fit their agenda.
2006-11-14 20:11:02 · answer #5 · answered by rsbdkaise 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For the same reason reporters can't videotape the coffins coming home or why we don't hear from the thousands of soldiers who have been maimed or disfigured.
2006-11-14 17:42:50 · answer #6 · answered by Pete Schwetty 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I have an idea; why don't you go to Iraq and do an interview like that?
2006-11-14 18:11:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Fear.
2006-11-14 17:32:10 · answer #8 · answered by mary57whalen 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋