for godsakes, i found this on IMDB! it's a report from the radical left wing rag, the Columbia Journalism Review, asking why American media have universally ignored the RAI documentary on the bombing of Falujah with white phosphorous. from the article,
The CJR article concluded, "This story demands a closer look from the American press. We deserve to know whether or not the allegations have any merit -- and whether or not the military has been misleading us about the weapons it's using in Iraq."
i did a quite google to see if this is true, and the sources i'm given are: dailykos, abovetopsecret.com, islamacaweb.com, guerillanews, counterpunch, and eventually an article in the Boston Herald that was off-limits. once again, the MSM seem to be operating under the hope that if they close their eyes, the story will go away. they've been scooped by Italian journalists, and they're refusing to even give a paragraph to the story -- it would show their abysmal failure.
here's the brief article in full from IMDB:
Why Did U.S. TV News Ignore Italian Documentary?
The prestigious Columbia Journalism Review is raising questions about why the American news media have virtually ignored a documentary produced by RAI, the Italian state television network, alleging that the U.S. used white phosphorus against insurgent and civilian targets in Fallujah one year ago. The documentary, which aired on Tuesday, includes interviews with two U.S. soldiers acknowledging such use and shows footage of white phosphorus shells being aimed not at the sky for illumination purposes (as the U.S. has claimed) but at the ground. "Most damning," the CJR article observed, is footage "of bodies burnt to the bone, apparently the result of chemical burns." Some of the footage has been posted on the Internet and was reported in the U.K. by the BBC and the Independent newspaper. But not a single American network has even mentioned the film, let alone rebroadcast any of its footage. (Reports about the alleged use of phosphorus missiles appeared at the time of the Fallujah attack in the San Francisco Chronicle and the Washington Post.) The CJR article concluded, "This story demands a closer look from the American press. We deserve to know whether or not the allegations have any merit -- and whether or not the military has been misleading us about the weapons it's using in Iraq."