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Originally Posted by Startup
I think that people hold the untruths of the Bush administration against anyone connected with the government. We have been deceived so many times since Bush took office that we have a knee-jerk reflex not to believe anything the government tells us.
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Of course, I have to agree with that. It's the whole premise for the Iraq war: "Iraq has deceived us so many times that to believe they
don't have WMD would be beyond foolish."
SwamP-ThinG hates this rationality unless it serves his own ends.
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I think the Iraqi abuse gets more air time because the beheading is what most people consider "business as usual" for the evil iraqis. Conversely, abuse from a county that paints itself as a caring nation is completely "out of character."
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I think that's part of it. But I also believe many in the media were against this war from the beginning and they have to be proved right. In order to show that they were right from the very beginning they are emphasizing the stories which support their position, and downplaying the stories contrary to their opinion.
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The soldiers would get more sympathy can news coverage IF that news coverage were allowed. We just don't normally hear about the deaths and we normally don't see the injured and dead soldiers so it is very easy not to think about it.
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I wonder. I mean, we still have embedded reporters. Supposedly they're reporting the stories from there, aren't they? There are 135,000 troops in Iraq; every day we hear about the few thousand who are fighting insurgents, dying and killing civilians. Where are the other 130,000? What are they doing?
If I knew some t.v. producers, I would recommend a weekly reality show with reporters embedded in the different units. Of course, there are some bad things going on in Iraq. Can it all be bad? If you watch the mainstream media, that's the impression you get.