its like everyday that we hear about deaths, but we almost never hear about the good that soldiers have done. Both of my parents are enlisted, so why don't i hear about the good news that they have on the news?
2007-02-16 11:52:28 · 16 answers · asked by jeddy 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Don't listen to that liberal media bias myth. Most US media outlets are owned by conservatives.
The US media is telling you about the good news, if you have the stomach for it you can get the real news from the BBC.
2007-02-16 12:02:40 · answer #1 · answered by Its Hero Dictatorship 5 · 4⤊ 2⤋
The latest story that I just read was in Yahoo news no less.
The sweep of Baghdad by Iraqi and American forces is being both very effective and very successful - thus far, the terrorist attracts have been reduced from 50 or so a day to 10.
Do not expect to see this latest development in the New York Times - this kind of news might be "misconstrued" to indicate that Bush is on the right track and does not sit well with the liberals who seem much more concerned with Bush's failure than the security of America.
It's a sad commentary, eh?
2007-02-16 12:05:37 · answer #2 · answered by LeAnne 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
More journalists have been killed in Iraq than in any other war. It is well nigh impossible for them to travel to areas freely and get the "good news". Besides, people don't buy a paer that says "Everything is fine". TV or newspapers are businesses. They are there to make money, and the news they print is the news people pay for. Even Faux News or the Wall Street Journal, two conservative media outlets, report the "bad news" over the "good news" in Iraq, because that's what sells.
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LeAnne, what is sad is that you don't read up on counterinsurgency doctrine and the history of insurgency. In the face of superior forces (the so called surge) the enemy will lay low, refuse to confront government forces, and bide their time looking for an opening, or relocating to less secure areas. A six to nine month surge has zero long term chance of working. Zero.
2007-02-16 12:21:29 · answer #3 · answered by Chance20_m 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've heard of good things happening in Iraq. Schools and medical clinics being built and local markets being reinvigorated. That was on NPR, widely considered by conservatives to be exceedingly liberal. You probably don't hear about it because the bad news is just so awful, car bombs, suicide bombers, downed helicopters and people, military and civilian, dead. After that, it can be hard to remember the good news.
2007-02-16 15:11:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What good things can you speak of, when millions of Iraqis are now refugees?. More than a hundred thousand Iraqis daily are scampering to leave the country. These refugees had now become an enormous humanitarian problem. Why?. If good things are indeed happening in Iraq as you say, how do you explain these mass exodus of Iraqi civilians?. Even during the entire years of Saddam's reign, there had never been human catastrophe of such magnitude as what we're seeing now.
2007-02-16 14:16:49 · answer #5 · answered by roadwarrior 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
"If it bleeds, it leads" Just like "sex sells" it may be cliche, but it is true. Good news doesnt sell as well, and the news is just like everyone else, they only care about money.
I know many people in the military. One of the great stories that nobody in the media tells is the MEDCAPS. Every day, hundreds of US soldiers go into villages and heal thousands of sick people in Iraq and Afghanistan. You'll hear about the 4 people that died today, but you'll never hear about the 3000 that got free medical care today.
2007-02-16 12:01:44 · answer #6 · answered by Aegis of Freedom 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Because good news doesn't sell. Plus, why would we report on something good when one good thing leads to ten other bad things??? So the electricity is on for a couple hours a day, BUT scores of people are dying monthly whether it be by American forces, Insurgents or by other means. Fact of the matter is that you'll never EVER hear about the good, no matter how much of it is good so long as bad things are happening.
2007-02-16 11:58:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
I remember them reporting on the elections.. That was supposed to be a good thing to report on right? I remember they cut one reporter cause a bomb went off in the background, they went to the next and yep, a bomb went off in the background. So they went to a third, gunshots went off and the reporter ran for cover. This all happened within 15 minutes. So to answer, they do.. But bad things seem to happen anyways..
BTW- Fox news (the NUMBER 1 name in news) doesn't report good things either. You ever wonder why they can go to Lebonon during that war and report? Anderson Cooper was in Iran the other day reporting. Maybe it's because they are too scared to report all these great things that are happening in Iraq. They seem to go other places and report good things without the military.. Why can't they do it there?? hmmm..
2007-02-16 12:01:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Because the good things are not news.
They have been going on in Iraq since it was known as Mesopotamia.
It's just the horrors of our president spearheading war in a country we have no noble business being in that's the news.
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2007-02-16 12:01:10 · answer #9 · answered by Brotherhood 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
That's because most of the media is controlled by the left wing liberals who want to see us fail over there. By showing only the deaths of soldiers and civilians they try to influence public opinion to be anti war and against the current administration.
2007-02-16 12:01:19 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋