AP Reports Good News (but backtracks in the article)

Suicide bombings fell in November to their lowest level in seven months. Yet the AP noting this fact felt the need to talk about the continued deaths, going so far as to specifically mention a US Soldier that died in a car crash in Iraq yesterday.

Tell me, when was the last time you saw an article in the US press that seemed optimistic about progress in Iraq? One that could be, by some stretch of the imagination, called "positive"?

The US is under attack for paying Iraqi media outlets to carry information provided by US troops. Information, not misinformation. We're talking about subsidizing media for printing the truth, not bribing papers to print lies. I didn't realize there was anything wrong with that. In fact, I think it wouldn't be a bad idea to implement back home, too.

Who's for it? I'd pay a little extra tax money to provide funds to get CNN and Fox News to show all the facts, not just the ones that support their agenda. Is there a law against that? Not that I'm aware of, although our media apparently thinks it's wrong.

You can't pay a paper to print a good story, but they'll carry Zarqawi's propaganda and lies for free. God bless the "free" press, as long as they're on your side.

Want another look at Iraq? Kevin Sites writes about a museum erected in Sulaymaniyah by Iraqi Burds, who want to ensure their children remember what they were forced to live through before America freed them. Does anyone else remember the Anfal campaign, in which 182.000 Kurds were killed? I wish we could send Americans to that museum...

Labels: iraq, media

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