This story is from the UK
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/08/wanbar308.xml
***In addition to your answer to the original question, how do you feel about this great turn in the war?
2007-10-09 07:01:47 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I want America to prevail. I'm glad things are going better.
Much of the media does not share my views.
2007-10-09 07:05:23 · answer #1 · answered by American citizen and taxpayer 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
The media has. I watched the report on this on CBS news Earlier this year !
Do you know what the Sunni's expect for their help ?
I felt worried then and I'm worried now. If the plan is to give power to anyone who helps keep Iraq calm then what have our boys been fighting and dieing for ? I thought the plan was to give all the people of Iraq freedom ?
What do you think the Sunni's are going to do when we leave ? (not be nice to their Shiite neighbors, that's for sure)
2007-10-09 14:14:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's not bad news. The US media is so stuck on the idea that the only good news is bad news, that it doesn't get reported.
Since when is this a turn in the war? All the reports I read from soldiers fighting in it are about how happy the average Iraqi is to see an American soldier.
2007-10-09 14:09:46 · answer #3 · answered by vyperjeedai 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=5XJBRF551EUY3QFIQMGCFF4AVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2007/10/08/wanbar208.xml
different article, same paper....difference of opinions.
there is good news that comes out of Iraq on a regular basis...check out this web site:
http://www.defendamerica.mil/
there are so many news sources available out there...each with their own unique perspective of the war on terror.
2007-10-09 14:14:42 · answer #4 · answered by Becca 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The US has given ex-Bathists (who were also known as dead enders) tons of money and armaments to win them over. These were people that a short time ago were killing and maiming American forces. The problem is you only rent loyalty over there. You can never buy it.
Furthermore, with this development, the US is on a collision course with the Shia Iraqis and their Iranian benefactors.
I´d put this ``great news´´ in the same file as the capture of Saddam and those purple finger elections.
2007-10-09 14:12:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Your source is an editorial... that means it is an OPINION... there are some facts in it but it is still a editorial.
Sorry, but why would a EDITORIAL be newsworthy????????
I have never known an example of a editorial in a newspaper being newsworthy. This is one journalist and his own individual experience (he does not even have an inside track to the policy makers).... watch Michael Weir on CNN, he has a completely different vision of his Iraq experience -- should his reporting be saturating the US media???? That is insane.
2007-10-09 14:12:20 · answer #6 · answered by cattledog 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Good news is reported, but not before being twisted first.
2007-10-09 14:17:44 · answer #7 · answered by wider scope 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let's see-the United States is armiong people who until recently,were killing American soldiers,the manipulation of casualty figures to support the government's position is a :great turn in the war"?
Whatever.
2007-10-09 14:13:13 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
bad news sells better here. the media here entertains us and our desires. it is good news,we could hear more if we demanded better from our media
2007-10-09 14:12:46 · answer #9 · answered by here to help 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
They're not reporting it because it doesn't fit their agenda.
They are too busy reporting fake stories about what radio entertainers didn't actually say.
2007-10-09 14:06:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋