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Originally Posted by Rob_G
I've actually seen programs like that, with the Dutch soldiers in Iraq. Why isn't there something like that in the US?
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Something like 60-70% of the media in the US is liberal (can't remember the exact statistics, it's on the web somewhere). I have to imagine that contributes to the coverage.
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It's not like the bad stuff you see on the news isn't happening... ;)
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As I said, I know it's happening. I'm not trying to discount it or dismiss it in any way. What is evident though, is that there is a factual way to report the news and there is an opinionated way to present the news. While I'm not so naive as to believe that ALL bias can be removed, I'm also observant enough to recognize when the reporting has a significant slant. I don't watch Fox news for this very reason: their reporting is so obviously biased to the right that it makes the news worthless (and nauseating).
For example: every headline of this particular incident goes something like this - "US Air Strike Murders 40 Wedding Party Guests". Given the information available to the reporters (or lack thereof) they presume the guilt of the US and in terms that cast the most negative light possible on the US forces. Yankeefan1970 broached the same subject - we hear about civilian casualties and wanton destruction of property by the US forces on page one, when the truth is different it shows up on page 50, if it's mentioned at all. Is this reporting? In the face of limited information, assume that one party is guilty? When those first assumptions are incorrect, bury the truth?
If it were the other way, if the first headlines around the world were "Iraqis Stage Fake Wedding to Cover Up Foreign Fighter Conduit" and the information is the same, would you believe there's some bias there? If you then had to read posts that immediately condemn the Iraqis based upon this information, wouldn't you believe that those posters are jumping to conclusions?