On the example of Iraq war and post Iraq war as well as its consequences, is it possible that the US media is extremely biased or even censored (voluntarily).

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Clearly, the major corporations who own the news outlets censor their broadcasts. For example, the news outlets should start their broadcasts everynight with the government's unwillingness to allow them to broadcast our wounded and fallen soldiers.

We also don't hear much about the government's other many abuses. I guess that is why Colin Powell's son is trying to allow them to consolidate the news business even more.

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I'm sure all media is biased, not just the US. Still, in what direction is it biased is the question. If you ask the average guy on the street he will probably tell you that Iraq is a mess, that the entire country is going to hell in a handbasket, that all the people are revolting, there is no water, electricity, sewage, etc. When, in fact, this is not the case.

If it bleeds, it leads. Peace is boring.

What is the case, then?

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I agree with your statement about Peace being boring but that is why you have Jerry Springer.

However, when did the Iraqi population get power, sewage and electric back in a working condition?? WHen did the business in Iraq not become a mess? You mean daily dead soldiers is normal and soc ial unrest is normal... Ok...

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I think you are overstating. I read in the NY Times that power has been turned back on to pre-war levels and businesses are re-opening and thriving.

I am sure Iraq still has a lot of problems and will for some time, and I am sure that Iraq will be extremely dangerous for some time, but from everything I have read, it is getting better.

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Out of rubbel there is only one way... getting better... I have not read or heard anyone state either one of those comments and considering that there is no data from the former Iraq to show at what levels the economy was functioning as the UN imposed embargos still stood, I can make the claim but will definately have issues backing it up.

Has the NY Times reported on the thriving drug market and other issues new to that country since it was "liberated"???

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Here's a recent article: http://www.reason.com/0403/fe.sv.faith.shtml

And another: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/G...re_040314.html

And another: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...600857,00.html

I looked for mainstream press and was actually able to find some (ABC, Time). Still, you're not going to see this information on TV.

The next time you hear about a bomb exploding or someone being killed. Check to see what part of Iraq it came from. Chances are it's the Sunni Triangle - like in this article: http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/...prj.nirq.main/

For some reason, I feel like I have to state clearly that I never said Iraq was a bustling Utopia, filled with peace-loving do-gooders who have bushels of money to throw around. Seems the words I write down here, end up being something totally different by the time others read them.

Another example of liberal media bias:

Perhaps many of you remember, about a year ago, Trent Lott said that if America had followed Strom Thurmond years ago we wouldn't be in this mess we're in right now. Two days latter he resigned under the torrent of public backlash. Course, no one in the public would've heard about it without the media.

Six days ago, Senator Robert Byrd cast his 17,000th vote and the Senators rose to praise him. Connecticut Senator Christopher Dodd said that Byrd was a "man for all seasons" and would have been equally right for the founding of the country as well as during the Civil War. In fact, Mr. Dodd couldn't think of a time in history when Senator Byrd would not have been right for the country.

So who's Robert Byrd? Rober Byrd was a member of the Ku Klux Klan. After WWII, Byrd wrote of his hopes for the rebirth of the Klan in his home state of W. Virginia. In 1964 Byrd participated with fellow Democrats in an effort to filibuster the Civil Rights Act. Three years ago Byrd used the "N" word repeatedly in a Fox News interview. This is a "man for all seasons"?

Have you heard about this? Probably not. And why not? Why was Trent Lott so vehemently and expediently lambasted for his comments and Mr. Dodd has not? Who can say for sure. But I think it's interesting to remember that Mr. Lott is a Republican and Mr. Dodd is a Democrat.

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I was told the media was "fair and balanced", you're telling me this is not true? :confused:

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