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2006/10/25

Virtual Reporting - The Dummies’ Guide to Faux Bravado

@ 01:02 PM (37 months, 14 days ago)

Michael Fumento was on Dennis Prager today talking about how the media covers the war in Iraq from their hotel rooms, rarely venturing out from their enclaves. It shows why the media cannot properly cover the war in Iraq. Here is an excerpt:

Ramadi, Iraq
Would you trust a Hurricane Katrina report datelined “direct from Detroit”? Or coverage of the World Trade Center attack from Chicago? Why then should we believe a Time Magazine investigation of the Haditha killings that was reported not from Haditha but from Baghdad? Or a Los Angeles Times article on a purported Fallujah-like attack on Ramadi reported by four journalists in Baghdad and one in Washington? Yet we do, essentially because we have no choice. A war in a country the size of California is essentially covered from a single city. Plug the name of Iraqi cities other than Baghdad into Google News and you’ll find that time and again the reporters are in Iraq’s capital, nowhere near the scene. Capt. David Gramling, public affairs officer for the unit I’m currently embedded with, puts it nicely: “I think it would be pretty hard to report on Baghdad from out here.” Welcome to the not-so-brave new world of Iraq war correspondence.

 

Vietnam was the first war to give us reporting in virtually real time. Iraq is the first to give us virtual reporting. That doesn’t necessarily make it biased against the war; it does make it biased against the truth.

Read the rest here.

Eat s*it Dan Rather.

Comment(s) »

  1. Wha... The media is comprised of lying cowards? :wink:

    Thanks, liberal news machine.:roll:

    Comment by Brooke— 2006/10/26 @ 04:58 AM — (Reply)

  2. Ditto that, Blather.

    Comment by Rosemary— 2006/10/26 @ 08:36 PM — (Reply)

  3. Great find, I printed and will read it in a bit.

    Michael Kelly was an awesome man.

    Comment by Joe Gringo— 2006/10/27 @ 06:08 AM — (Reply)

  4. BOO!

    abuses

    oh boo...

    Comment by nanc— 2006/10/31 @ 04:16 PM — (Reply)

  5. I read somewhere recently that only 9 reporters are embedded with the troops at any time. You wouldn't think so from reading the news reports - you'd think these journalists were hunkering down in foxholes and taking enemy fire 24/7. :roll:

    Comment by Cate— 2006/10/31 @ 04:31 PM — (Reply)

  6. the part that got me was when they lied about the plane landings

    Comment by elmers brother— 2006/10/31 @ 07:28 PM — (Reply)

  7. Ah yes EB..our "other " enemy: THE MEDIA! :cry:

    Comment by Angel— 2006/12/04 @ 02:23 PM — (Reply)

  8. Aw..EB..I'm not on your blogroll..sigh:cry:

    Comment by Angel— 2006/12/04 @ 02:27 PM — (Reply)

  9. I'm sorry Angel, it was an oversight on my part. It's taken care of now. You know that I love you.

    Comment by Elmers Brother— 2006/12/04 @ 02:36 PM — (Reply)

  10. Here are a few interesting ones Angel:

    asmalldoseofreality.bloghi.com

    regressiveminds.bloghi.com

    loserblue.bloghi.com

    I bet all of them would go for a mutual blogrolling.
    What do you think EB?

    Comment by Barry G.— 2006/12/04 @ 03:07 PM — (Reply)

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