I’ve pointed out how the state-owned CBC calls it the “so-called war on terror” (or the full name: “the Bush administration’s so-called war on terror”), but apparently this pathological denial is not so much a CBC disease but a liberal mainstream media one. Or at least the committed left-wing agenda-driving media.
This is from the superb Media Research Center:
Only ABC Airs Full Good Iraq News Story, NBC Can’t Resist Caveat
The Pentagon on Monday released a quarterly report showing dramatic reductions in violence in Iraq compared to a year earlier, but only ABC aired a full story Monday evening while NBC gave it short-shrift as anchor Brian Williams cited the reduction in violence “by as much as 80 percent” since “before the so-called troop surge.” He then added a caveat about how the report “also warns the positive trend here remains, quote, ‘fragile, reversible and uneven.’” CBS didn’t mention the DOD report, but gave a few seconds to a front page USA Today story on how the number of Americans killed by roadside bombs has plummeted 88 percent. Fill-in ABC anchor Elizabeth Vargas teased: “The government says there’s good news from Iraq. Violence is down dramatically, while security and the economy are improving.” Terry McCarthy recited how “civilian deaths are down 75 percent since last July. Total security incidents are at their lowest level in over four years.” McCarthy credited “a number of reasons for the progress: Better performance by the Iraqi security forces; surprising new leadership by Prime Minister Maliki…” Indeed, McCarthy confirmed the Pentagon’s assessment: “For the past three weeks, we’ve traveled the length of Iraq, from Basra in the south to Mosul in the north, and the reduction in violence is remarkable everywhere.”
And by the way, we sure got some wall-to-wall coverage of that report up here didn’t we? I’ll bet you didn’t know one thing about this report. As you can tell by looking at this web site, I watch the Canadian news. I never saw one thing about this in the Canadian TV or print media (I joked about it just yesterday). And if that is the case for you and yet you’ve been watching the news, then you’ve been mislead and misinformed by omission. By not informing you, the news media is driving an agenda, and you can’t trust a news media with an agenda.
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