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Of course it's just more of the same but, is it really? This is from todays New York Times:
Headline: "Bad Iraq News Worries Some in G.O.P. on '06"
By ADAM NAGOURNEY
and DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
Published: August 18, 2005
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 - "A stream of bad news out of Iraq, echoed at home by polls that show growing impatience with the war and rising disapproval of President Bush's Iraq policies, is stirring political concern in Republican circles, party officials said Wednesday.
Some said that the perception that the war was faltering was providing a rallying point for dispirited Democrats and could pose problems for Republicans in the Congressional elections next year."
The rest of this article goes on to quote Republicans and Democrats that are generally against the war. I just wonder if you caught the important wording of this article. I wonder if you realize that the wording puts the New York Times and the media in this country right at the beginning of what people are led to think. I'll give that to you right here and right now:
"A stream of bad news out of Iraq"
There is plenty of opportunity for "reporters" to give us good news out of Iraq. There is plenty of good news out of Iraq to report. I read an article the other day where a reporter responded to that very question by saying that they couldn't get "out" to find those "good" stories because it was a war zone. I wonder what happened to reporters being able to ask questions.
So we hear that 4 Marines died in a bombing. Was the reporter there when the bomb went off? No. It was part of a daily briefing where the military men stand at the podium and give information on casualties and how operations are progressing against the terrorists. Every single day these "reporters" have the opportunity to ask questions. Their "news" organizations want them to ask questions. What questions? Don't you think they discuss that? Good? Bad? Don't you ask yourself don't both "good" and "bad" exist?
"A stream of bad news out of Iraq"
Dam it New York Times and let some of those "good" news stories in Iraq swim upstream. :duel
Headline: "Bad Iraq News Worries Some in G.O.P. on '06"
By ADAM NAGOURNEY
and DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
Published: August 18, 2005
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 - "A stream of bad news out of Iraq, echoed at home by polls that show growing impatience with the war and rising disapproval of President Bush's Iraq policies, is stirring political concern in Republican circles, party officials said Wednesday.
Some said that the perception that the war was faltering was providing a rallying point for dispirited Democrats and could pose problems for Republicans in the Congressional elections next year."
The rest of this article goes on to quote Republicans and Democrats that are generally against the war. I just wonder if you caught the important wording of this article. I wonder if you realize that the wording puts the New York Times and the media in this country right at the beginning of what people are led to think. I'll give that to you right here and right now:
"A stream of bad news out of Iraq"
There is plenty of opportunity for "reporters" to give us good news out of Iraq. There is plenty of good news out of Iraq to report. I read an article the other day where a reporter responded to that very question by saying that they couldn't get "out" to find those "good" stories because it was a war zone. I wonder what happened to reporters being able to ask questions.
So we hear that 4 Marines died in a bombing. Was the reporter there when the bomb went off? No. It was part of a daily briefing where the military men stand at the podium and give information on casualties and how operations are progressing against the terrorists. Every single day these "reporters" have the opportunity to ask questions. Their "news" organizations want them to ask questions. What questions? Don't you think they discuss that? Good? Bad? Don't you ask yourself don't both "good" and "bad" exist?
"A stream of bad news out of Iraq"
Dam it New York Times and let some of those "good" news stories in Iraq swim upstream. :duel