why didn't i hear this on the news?

Question

when the 3rd infantry division went into Ramadi, and cleared out insergants in anbar province, their were iraqi civilians coming out of their homes and asking the troops not to leave them. i know that the war isn't going great, but it seems to me like you never hear about the progress that were making over there.

ya, bad news sells better then good news, unless the good news involves little fury animals.

chris b, i think im detecting a little sarcasm

Answer 1

Why didn't you hear it on the news? simple.

Liberals.

They do not want you to hear anything positive about the war in Iraq. they dont want you to know the lies they are spinning to create fearmongering for their own political gain back home regardless of the impact on our troops safety or the security of our nation or our ally's nation (Iraq)

Answer 2

Turn back the clock to before lots of US military actions around the world ... the people who work for the news media are pretty much military illiterates ... they go to various briefings like at the Pentagon & they are looking for bad news, because it is bad news that sells controversies that sells newspapers which are in it for the advertising.

During major operations invasion of Iraq the US military did some things that were just fabulous very intelligent.
* embedded journalists to see what was going on at the front lines ... they were getting a military 101 education, and passing it along to their viewers and readers
* those cameras on the tops of the helmets so high command could see where front line troops needed more support
* journalists with the paratroopers, filming the whole process ... but instead of journalists in a parachute, the troops cameras used until journalists could rejoin the unit

At the end of major operations, they dropped the embedded journalists, they dropped the cameras on the helmets ... I think this was like turning back the clock, doing time travel to before the clever intelligent decisions.

So now we have journalism back to the usual illiteracy.

So now there is this "green zone" which is a poorly defended bunker, but at least it is better than being outside in the killing zones, so very few journalists venture out to be kidnapped, beheaded or whatever.

Answer 3

Because if the rules of engagement were where they should be, the civilians just would have said thank you and where do we bury these insurgents?

But because the majority of the Amercian people don't know what it's like to be severely oppressed and tortured by their own government and therefore think freedom is just for them as long as it doesn't cost too much, we will continue to this war with our bleeding hearts so as not to really eliminate the enemy and Iraq will just keep spinning it's wheels.

You are never going to hear anything good about this war on the news b/c the truth is never interesting enough. Progress doesn't piss people off.

Answer 4

It's because the Associated Press wants the U.S. to fail. First they promoted two people to editor for Iraq after they were caught making up stories about deaths and destruction that never happened and then reporters from other organizations, not wanting to actually report, hired insurgence as stringers to report the news.

Answer 5

It doesn't fit into the little box identified by the media and CNN's political agenda.

They ignore the 90-95% of the news there because it is positive.

Answer 6

Oh of course you didn't hear about it on the news. The media wants Iraq to look as violent as possible.

When my brother was there he talked about how all the village kids would wave Texas flags and cheer whenever they passed by (They apparently thought they were the U.S. flag, as some smartass soldier probably handed them out). He also spent alot of time having squirt gun fights with them, soccer games, etc.

But of course, there's no coverage of that, either.

There certainly were days when violence occured, but nothing like what we watch on our flat screen TV's and comfy couches.

Answer 7

watch the daily show.

brian williams actually mentioned something similar.

Answer 8

Right and why didn't they want them to leave . . . because the insurgents would just come back.

Answer 9

I heard it on Cnn, Try another station.

Answer 10

i know what you mean! we are secureing the oil fields, setting up the oil campanies to run the show, building 14 perminant millitary bases, lets see. what else did we do there..........