What CNN and Other Western Media Don't Show Us, What Do You Think?

Question

When I saw this picture it brought tears to my eyes on how a soldier can show so much love and affection for Iraq. The media should do much more than just showing death and destruction.




http://ouray.cudenver.edu/~djquandt/soldierblogs2/joes/IRAQ_US_WAR_IRAQ_U3.jpg

Answer 1

Your right. The midia is so focused on it's own agenda and the agenda of a political party that is neglects the Truth.

I don't want their damn opinion, I want the truth.

Answer 2

I personally don't trust our media anymore. I used to before March of 2003. I was in Pakistan visiting my in laws when the Iraq war started. Their media literally shows all sides of everything. They showed Bush's entire speech. They showed Blair. They showed other countries speaking about everything. Then there was a Black Hawk Helicopter shot down and soldiers in it. I remember seeing footage, some of it live, of the soldiers being rescued and taken to what looked like a doctor's office. No bars, no jails, it was like the waiting room of a doctor's office. They were sitting there, some were eating, and they were speaking on camera. They were asked their names and ranks. They were asked why they were fighting. I tuned out afterwards, becuase my husband at that time and I were heading back home to the US and I figured I could get the rest of the story later back home. I came back to the US, about 3 days later, and watched the news. That same story, that very same story with those very same names, was botched BIG TIME. According to CNN and other major news networks, the soldiers had been "mercilessly shot on site by insurgents and bodies dragged through the streets". I had seen them talking on camera myself, and knew that they had not been shot on site. Other people who had been overseas at the time were also shocked that this had been said when they knew what really happened. Now, i don't trust our media an ounce. No matter wha they say. They proved how they really were when they outright lied about that story. I agree that more positive should be shown, but that should be both sides and not just on the part of the US Soldiers. Many of our soldiers are muslim as well and are fighting FOR our very right to speak down about them. We should support everyone trying to do good, not insult and lie about them.

Answer 3

What you are doing is called propagandizing. You are showing one picture and claiming that all the others aren't as important. The truth is that this war is killing scores of people every day, both troops from the various nations, mostly our US troops, and Iraqi civilians, as well as "the insurgents."

The guys I know who have come back from there have been quick to blast the war policy and can't wait till all our troops are back because, "You watch the news and have no idea how bad it really is." and, "We could have a million troops there and it wouldn't make a difference, they start shooting each other, we roll in, they stop and hide. We catch some of them and as soon as we leave they start shooting each other again, they're nuts."

I will not give the soldiers name that told me this, but he is in Iraq now, and has been for some time. Last time he was home he came to our poker night, this was the only thing he said about Iraq. He didn't want to think about it otherwise.

Answer 4

For information, I prefer Link TV or B.B.C. and for news, I choose DemocracyNow!, with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. Independent media is more informative than the government-run media.

Link TV spotlight program: "Iraq's missing billions", if anyone cares where the money's gone. See how the hospitals operate with no supplies.

In a hospital room in Diwaniyah, a new-born baby is struggling to breathe. She urgently needs oxygen but the hospital has no suitable equipment. Instead, staff have made a crude arrangement of suction pipes and are holding a tube to her nose. “This treatment is worse than primitive. It’s not even medicine”, despairs a doctor as the little girl dies.

This hospital was meant to have benefited from a $4 million refit. But the standard of work is terrible. Raw sewage leaks into the kitchens and operating theatres. New light fittings have melted. Ants crawl around on the floor. Little wonder people here feel betrayed. “This terrible hospital will make my child worse”, complains one parent.

“As trustees, we did a very poor job,” admits Frank Willis, a senior member of the CPA and one of Bremer’s top officials. “We should have spent the money on the Iraqi people, rather than putting it in the pockets of foreign business.” Contracts were negotiated fast and furiously. There was no oversight of projects and security was appalling. “We played football with bricks of hundred dollar bills.”

http://www.journeyman.tv/?lid=56149

Answer 5

Hilarious! somebody in China complaining that western television purely shows sturdy information! inspect chinese language television! It seldom shows undesirable information. purely tells us repeatedly lower back how properly everybody is doing owing to the know-how of the occasion. even while they are in a position to't ignore approximately something (like the Sichuan earthquake), the information is all with regards to the heroic PLA saving the day and how astounding the government is. All propaganda.

Answer 6

The media are basically anti-war so all they want to show you is the destruction and not the good parts that are being done by the USA and Great Britain in Iraq. They loathe the military so the way to make them look bad is to always show the killing and slant the news to say we are bad and the insurgents are good bacause if we were not there, this would not be happening.

I think there is a more positive side to all of this, but you only hear it from an actual soldier who has been there.

Answer 7

The Middle East will never be peaceful without ending the Israeli occupation. This is the conclusion of the UN, EU, Backer-Hamilton report, and President Carter new book.

Answer 8

That picture was real good. It is too bad the the News Media does not show pictures of what the US Military is really doing in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Answer 9

"No one calls for justice;
no one pleads his case with integrity.
They rely on emty argumrnts
and speak lies;
they conceive trouble and give birth to evil.
They hatch the eggs of vipers
and spin a spider's web.
Whoever eats their eggs will die,
and when one is broken, and adder is hatched.
Their cobwebs are useless for clothing;
they cannot cover themselves with what they make.
Their deeds are evil deeds,
and acts of violence are in their hands.
Their feet rush into sin;
they are swift to shed innocent blood.
Their thoughs are evil thoughts;
ruin and destruction mark their ways.
The way of peace they do not know;
there is no justice in their paths.
They have turned them into crooked roads;
no one who walks in them will know peace."

About the time you'd like to address this to someone, it must first be addressed to the person in the mirror. Perhaps the soldier in the picture did this and "took his life in his own hands".

Answer 10

~You talked about CNN not showing this, did Fox News show it? It's highly doubtful!
Most people love babies, that was never a secret. The news don't show us the truth of war. War is about death and destruction, what do you expect to see in a war?
What do I think? I think you are trying to find something good in war and blaming CNN for not showing you this picture.~

Answer 11

To phil j there are 54 American homicides a day how about them reporting that every day, and there isn't even a war here. I agree there is no balance here, same old crowd from Vietnam runs the media the reporting and behavior is the same.