Iraq: What would happen if the U.S. won a war but the media didn't tell the American public? Apparently, we have to rely on a British newspaper for the news that we've defeated the last remnants of al-Qaida in Iraq.
Let's choose to believe this account (July 2008) that we are winning/have won in Iraq. It really is a symptom of the onerous bias of the liberal media in the U.S. that they fail to report it. They are so infatuated with the Obama thing and the recession that the Iraq war dropped off their radar screen.
Here are some of the reasons they would give for not fully reporting this:
- The recession is absolutely the biggest news story now.
- The Obama victory is so important that we must cover it fully (ad nauseum).
- Iraq is just not news anymore. (I wonder how many 'embedded' reporters are still there [story below reports NONE]?)
- From the publishers: we are focused on our financial difficulties...we can't afford to spread our news staff too thin.
- Americans aren't interested in the Iraq war anymore.
One reason they wouldn't give is:
- Bush did the right thing in approving the 'surge.' Obama can't bring himself to say it because he opposed it and ...well, 'we' love Obama and hate Bush. To give Bush credit, well, it's just not in 'our' repertoire.
Today's (12/29/08) New York Times has this story on the subject. Opening paragraphs below.
TV News Winds Down Operations on Iraq War
Published: December 28, 2008
Quietly, as the United States presidential election and its aftermath have dominated the news, America’s three broadcast network news divisions have stopped sending full-time correspondents to Iraq.
NBC
Richard Engel, a top correspondent for NBC, is rotating in and out of Baghdad.
“The war has gone on longer than a lot of news organizations’ ability or appetite to cover it,” said Jane Arraf, a former Baghdad bureau chief for CNN who has remained in Iraq as a contract reporter for The Christian Science Monitor.
Joseph Angotti, a former vice president of NBC News, said he could not recall any other time when all three major broadcast networks lacked correspondents in an active war zone that involved United States forces.
Except, of course, in Afghanistan, where about 30,000 Americans are stationed, and where until recently no American television network, broadcast or cable, maintained a full-time bureau.
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