The War In Iraq has really become the War in America's Propagandist Media.
CNN and Fox News are doing their best to show me two extreme ideologies that are bad for America.
Let's start with CNN. Today's big story on their Inernational page is the battle in Baghdad's Sadr City. They talk about how a U.S. airstrike killed 10 and injured 17. Of course it implies later that those killed were terrorists because the bombing was a precision bombing and no civilians were killed. But the wording is so skewed that I almost feel as though they are making the military look like they are just in Iraq killing civilians for fun.
Then we have Fox. They don't even report this strike on their site, but they do post this story on a suicide bomber killing 4 in Mosul, a story CNN must have missed.
This is rediculous. Both sides completely leaving out stories that matter, and when they find an issue they like, they are quick to change it around so that it matches their ideology.
-Andrew Young
1 comment:
I'm not sure where you got the impression you did about the CNN.com story (though you might want to change your link, because the story provided by that link is changing every day). I read, and re-read the article and no where does it seem to try to pretend that Americans are just 'killing civilians for fun.' This seems like a stretch at best. And CNN.com did not provide the AP article that Fox did on that specific bombing. It did, however, include that specific bombing as part of a larger story of violence in Mosul that day. I'm also not sure what kind of bias you think CNN would be giving by excluding such a story about a suicide bombing either. If CNN is the left-wing, anti-war news agency, wouldn't it be in their best interest to have as many stories as possible about violence in Iraq?
Likewise, I don't understand the point you're trying to make about Fox News' coverage. The article they did not include was written by a CNN correspondent, and was likely not made available for republication through Fox.
The blog as a whole is a fine read, though. I'll keep reading from the office in my spare time.
Cheers from Salem!
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