The violence is down, Why no news?

Question

And people wonder why the polls on Iraq are so dismal. How can we win when the country is lied to and we accept it. Read this:



The news from Iraq that violence in Baghdad is down just one month into the new security crackdown didn't make a dent in most major newspaper front pages — and was buried in many.

The New York Times had it on page 16 today. The L.A. Times page 6, and the Chicago Tribune page 10. The decrease was mentioned in Wednesday's Washington Post on page 9 and the Boston Globe's page 13.

On the broadcast networks there was a brief mention on NBC's nightly newscast — but we could not find any reference on the ABC or CBS evening news shows.



This is just sickening

Answer 1

If it bleeds it leads. Good news is not very interesting to the networks. It has never been since Vietnam. Instead of reporting the news, we are fed a constant drivel called "stories" from the major media outlets. I have had the priviledge of being in actions widely reported in the media. In every single instance I couldn't figure out what the hell the reporter was talking about the distortion was so great. In many instances they shouldn't have called them "stories." They were more like fairy tales. I believe the anchors and reporters main plan these days is to create controversy so they have something to talk about. Muck raking have been elevated to somewhat of a religion to serve the ends of the anti-establishment sector of our country. The total point of stiring things up is profit. While many investigations are well intentioned and necessary for an informed citizenry, superfluous and erroneous reports have been submitted as fact to the utter embarrassment of the networks and newspapers. In their zeal and haste to smear the likes of the President, they have continuously violated their own guidelines of ethical and moral conduct. In siding with one political party, especially newspapers, they have become nothing more then political mouthpieces that serve neither the people or the country they have sworn to protect and inform. They routinely submit for our perusal thin stories that may or may not have a basis in fact or they don't even report stories that have definitely occurred but do not reflect well on whatever political persuasion they have adopted. (The New York Times have been famous for this in recent years.) The Iraq question will completely fall from the nightly newscasts is very little bad happens and progress is being made. The enemy knows this. This leads to more and more barbaric behavior to get their cause back on the front pages. The enemy used it very successfully in Vietnam and afterwards crowed mightily how easily they jerked the medias chain. Same thing is going on now. Big surprise. The enemy is using the media and the media driven politicians to act as mouthpieces for their cause and it is working well-as expected. Good news will never lead a broadcast. The last time that happened was at the end of WW2. Don't expect them to change anything. The only way that happens is when their boys are in power. Wait a couple of years. You may see a tone change you won't believe!! Then again, you may.

Answer 2

your little rant is just another example of how conservatives have no idea what the media does, it's job or how it works...

no wonder you think it's bias... you don't even know what media bias is...

you think if the media doesn't make the stories that are huge to you, huge to everyone, they are bias... but you don't look at why stories make it to the front page, and why stories don't...

first off... I've not seen any Iraqi violence stories on ANY front pages of the papers I've read in about a year... personally... maybe I don't read the papers you read, but most have been on the inside... so it would stand to figure, that another story about the violence (or lack thereof) would also get inside play...

but the other thing is... attacks going down isn't really news.... did you pick up a paper today that said "THERE WERE NO BOMBINGS IN NYC TODAY!" as a headline? no, because nobody cares about WHAT DIDN'T happen, they care about what did happen... saying that attacks are down, is saying there are fewer attacks... and while it's nice and good... it's not really big news...

the only people that care about what DIDN'T happen, are those trying to prove something with the point... which is what Republicans are trying to do... you're so busy playing politics, you forgot what the media does and why it's there...

IT'S BASICALLY THE OLD SAYING... no news is good news.... in other words... when there is no news of attacks in Iraq in the paper, people will think... "hey things are getting better, because I haven't read a story about it lately"...

and this story has been out there a while, right? I head this same report like last week? did they re-release it again, or was it a different report? you can't expect every paper to just put it on the front page every time the government says the same thing over and over? that's not news...

Answer 3

I think that you need to do some research into the media. What it is that they are "selling". It isn't news by the way.

When communism failed in the USSR, American media went into a "fear withdrawal" syndrome. During the cold war, there was plenty of material to feed the message of fear to the American public. With that threat gone, fear became a "commodity" that had to be generated.

Let's face it. Good news doesn't sell papers or get viewership. If it bleeds, it leads is the mantra of both printed and visual media.

Add to that the documented bias of most media and you can easily understand why these stories don't get top billing anywhere.

1. It doesn't fit the agenda they are pushing.
2. It doesn't instill fear into the reader/viewer.

That's about all you need to know about it.

By the way, I noticed this trend way back in the 80's. I've seen it growing year by year. Now, I rarely read a newspaper or watch local or network news.

And guess what? I am even more informed today that I ever was when I religiously read the papers or watched the news.

It isn't an accident either.

Answer 4

You get an A+ for this question!! gazing violent video clips, taking part in violent video games and tolerating violence in any type desensitizes each and every person, which comprise Christians, to the immorality of violence extra often than no longer. in this corrupt international it extremely is almost impossible to stay with out some sort of violence precise in our faces. there is huge money in violence no remember the way you look at it; no remember if it extremely is entertainment or conflict. As I draw closer to the Lord, i detect it harder to observe video clips with violence in them. even in spite of the shown fact that, reckoning on the tale, i won't say that i do no longer watch video clips with violence. I quite tend to observe actual thoughts and a few action videos that are frequently "stable vs. evil". I hate violence because of the fact I grew up with it.

Answer 5

Terrorists over in Iraq are just on a break planning new strategies. What bothers me is the way the media coverage seems to always be on the interior of the paper as oppossed to the front page and this has been for the past 5 years. Lets not put false hope in a lull that historically has only meant that the foes will come back even stronger. When we can say that the violence has been down for 6 months, then I will take my hat off to the administration.

Answer 6

Well, it is because the media is biased. Nobody ever saw the story about the Air Force medic who slept in a chair with an orphaned baby on his chest because that is the only way she would go to sleep at nights....
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123031670&page=2

...but Al-Sauder makes he news everytime he sneezes about the U.S. Troops being "unlawfull occupiers".


Nobody ever saw Suleymanya Iraqi Women Praising President Bush and holding a pix of him and the President of Iraq http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2005/10/17/suleymanya-iraqi-women-praising-president-bush.html
..No, but you WILL hear about Nancy Pelosi's next hairbrained idea of how to "pull the troops out of the senseless war in Iraq" even after she said that she will "work with the President for a solution to Iraq".

You are right, this is absolutely sickening...but what did you expect from these morons? Good news doesn't sell, my friend...and Good news about something that ISN'T their idea of Good news WILL NEVER FLY.

Answer 7

What did you expect? Another "Mission Accomplished!" celebration?
Of course it is down in the face of troop increases.

Answer 8

They have to say something to let us know how our Tax $$ is spent

Answer 9

Did we win? Can we leave now?

Answer 10

There has been quite a bit of news about it. Not sure where you have been.