Is this story an accurate depiction of Iraq or an example of media bias?

Question

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18529278/

Hephalump - I have no desire to enter a country that was taken by force by my countrymen.

Answer 1

The problem is is media has become increasing polarized among political lines. Beyond that it is difficult to say media does not have a subjective lens. We tried 80 years ago to seperate it by things such as op-ed pieces and opinion radio shows, but the lines has become increasingly blurred. It's interesting that anyone on either side simply has to state media bias to answer a fact that was presented to them that they don't like.

Answer 2

Yes. At least sentences like this "...killing at least 20 people and dealing a blow to recent U.S. claims of success in reclaiming the Sunni city from insurgents."

This is completely editorial and opinion based, not factual at all. For all we know, we killed 1000 insurgents, and only 1 got away and blew up the bomb (all it takes is one). That would be a massive success. However, we don't know because the media does not give us all the facts or context. They just take 1 tiny piece of information that supports their opinion, blow it out of proportion, and never give us the whole story.

It's like this about the whole war. We have literally killed tens of thousands of insurgents and terrorists. 95% of the country is completely free of violence. But somehow the media keeps declaring it is a lost war because 3,000 soldiers have died and 5% of the country still has issues.

Our casualties have been the lightest of any war ever fought in the history of human kind. 25 million people have been freed from a dictator and voted for their own government. 95% of the country is violence free and prosperous. It takes massive amounts of blind bias to show the war as anything but a massive success.

Answer 3

The description of the bombings, the dates, and places are most likely accurate. The only problem with our media is the emphasis they place on the carnage and the negative stories of the war. You will never hear any positive news about the good that our military has done for the people of Iraq. The news media publishes pictures of the soldiers who have been killed, not to pay them any kind of respect or honor, but to politicize their deaths in a cheap and tawdry attempt to destroy the war effort.

It's not so much as the slant that the media puts on the war, even though it is obviously negative, it is more to do with what they DON'T tell us that might make our military and our president look good.

Answer 4

It depends on how you look at it. It is legit news, however, I can't help but feel like that is NOT the only thing that happened in Iraq all weekend.

They only tell part of the entire story of Iraq.

Is that Bias? Many people tend to think so.

Think of it this way.
If all they talked about were soldiers handing out school supplies, building new hospitals, more and more Iraqi's getting power and cleaner fresher water, and all the dozens of Al Quida fighters either killed or captured. And you KNEW that there was a whole other side of the story about death, destruction, madness and mayhem but it wasn't hitting the mainstream media on a regular basis. How would that make you feel?

Answer 5

To quote an editorial in my local newspaper today; "Good news is no news", it was unrelated to the war, but gets the point across, people tend to focus on the bad, and ignore the good.

Answer 6

dealing a blow to recent U.S. claims of success in reclaiming the Sunni city from insurgents.

pretty much sounds like a democrat bias to me

but what else would you expect from

More Socialism for Nobody But Communists

Answer 7

Taken by force and given right to the Iraqi people.

Answer 8

Did not go to the site, and don't need to; any thing coming out of MS NBC is going to lean extremely left. So to answer your question, anything they say has an agenda behind it, and truth and accuracy is only considered as how it can be shaped to fit their agenda. I was there for 18 months and only left because of fairly severe damage received in an ambush. The troops have no use for that organization, they lie and distort anything that doesn't fit their views. I was a Company Commander, and chased those buzzards off my turf several times.

Answer 9

study the object you printed. Estrada became no longer nominated to be a excellent court docket Justice, he became nominated for The Federal Courts of Appeals. it really is the way it is going -- the Democrats attack Republican nominees and the Republicans attack Democratic nominees. no longer quite a race project.

Answer 10

they accurately told you about the violence that occurred, I'm not sure how that constitutes bias. Maybe you'd like to see a final paragraph saying something to the effect of "but on the up side American forces rescued 2 kittens from a tree and relieved several Iraqis of the burden of their tiny little lives."