The media report every unsubstantiated allegation of a US Soldier's crimes and fail to retract them when proven false.
Today, the US military is helping to recover the bodies of women and children killed by Al-Qaeda in Diyala Province, and then buried in a mass grave.
I have added the press release to my blog and it remains on the RSS feed. Surely every reporter in Iraq as well as every news service in the world watches the CentCom press release feed. Why do they say nothing about the innocent civilians killed by AQ in Iraq?
To help in answering that question for those that care about our troops and the truth about the war, I've added an RSS feed from CentCom that gives the lastest press releases out of both fronts.
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-DfkctJU7dK5B7LcNROoyVQ--;_ylt=AvKCmn92W_FCk0ugZGetFge0AOJ3?cq=1
No politics. Just the groundtruth from a combat veteran that has been to both fronts in the War on Terror. National Security transcends party lines.
2007-08-01 11:39:29 · 11 answers · asked by John T 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
All (so far) are failing to address that AQ killed innocent women and children and that is not making the news.
Coragryph: you are correct that financial considerations affect much of their reporting but you fail to address their political agenda.
2007-08-01 11:50:05 · update #1
They don't for the same reason that the news didn't exactly fall all over themselves to report that July had the fewest US casualties in over a year, but shockingly enough, that wasn't mentioned much.
That information doesn't fit with the agenda they are pushing.
2007-08-01 12:52:39 · answer #1 · answered by joby10095 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You know as well as I do what the answer to this is.
They are not reporting it, because American soldiers aren't dying in this operation. If it doesn't involve the death of our soldiers, or the embarrassment of the current administration (whether republican or democrat), then it's just not news.
Edit: I'm not forgetting that innocent woman and children were killed. But I am saying that since it involved neither the death of American servicemen, nor the embarrassment of the administration, it's not considered newsworthy by the American mainstream press.
2007-08-01 18:46:05 · answer #2 · answered by Jim K 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
First you have to understand the training for journalists! 1. They go to schools of "higher learning" and take the courses in SOCIAL STUDIES !!!!! 2. Social is the route word for SOCIALISM!!! 3. "" NEVER, NEVER, NEVER LET THE TRUTH NOR THE ACTUAL FACTS, INTERFERE WITH THE MAKING'S OF A SENSATIONAL STORY "" 4. ONLY YOUR OPINIONS, ARE THE OPINIONS THE PUBLIC WANTS TO HEAR !!!! 5. Retractions, and corrections are an open admission that there might be a falacy some where!!! We never make an error!!! We never make an error !!!! WE NEVER make an error!!! 6.ALWAYS PICK ON THOSE WHO ARE WEAK, IN THE MINORITY, AND CAN OR WILL NOT, FIGHT BACK !!!! The 6 Cardinal Rules for journanists, and reporters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Uncle Wil
2007-08-01 19:02:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
When the media reports an "allegation" -- they are reporting a current fact. At that time, an allegation existed.
Many don't cover the rest of the story, and when someone gets cleared, because it's not the kind of news that holds people's attention -- it doesn't sell papers or ads. So, being a good business, they only cover what gives them money.
2007-08-01 18:44:38 · answer #4 · answered by coragryph 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Because they're lackeys for the Democratic Party and, as ABC News correspondent Terry Moran said on Tim Russert's Meet the Press, "The press has a visceral dislike of the military; they hate them and consider them to be liars."
Just like Queen Hillary the Great and White Trash Billy. Oh, what a shock!
2007-08-01 18:44:20 · answer #5 · answered by Fast Eddie B 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
As a PR professional who has the same problem every day I have one answer.
In the mindset of a reporter -- Bad news (scandal-murder-overdose) won't get cut by your editor...
If you have a problem with it I would suggest contacting the editor of the reporter who broke the story and convincing them to run a correction, easy to say-harder to do.
2007-08-01 18:46:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because the media is comprised mainly of a bunch of biased liberals with their own agenda, which is primarily designed to get certain people elected in this country. If they succeed, then Lord help us all...!
2007-08-01 18:46:59 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
retracting the allegations both outlines the shoddyness of reporting today and doesn't make headlines. that is the sad story of the current american media
2007-08-01 18:44:23 · answer #8 · answered by ianbell 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
I have my suspicions... but here's an old post b a guy who knows.
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/05/breaking2453389.0680555557.html
2007-08-01 19:01:33 · answer #9 · answered by gugliamo00 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They lead the sheep where they want them and tell them only what they think they should hear.
The rest of us do investigating
2007-08-01 18:42:42 · answer #10 · answered by lc 5 · 5⤊ 1⤋