Does it seem to anyone else that the Bush administration push to accuse the media of only reporting bad news from Iraq has once again intimidated our ever more complaint press? Reports of our soldiers being killed get pushed to the end of news broadcasts, if they are mentioned at all. Likewise, the major television news websites no longer mention them on their front pages. Examples from today below the fold.
Here are just a few items from Iraq reported today from
http://icasualties.org/... :
05/25/06 Reuters: U.S. forces hand over five decomposed bodies in Balad
05/25/06 AFP: Roadside bomb kills 9 year old girl in Kirkuk
05/25/06 KUNA: Gunmen assassinate member of Mosul Governorate Council
05/25/06 CENTCOM: ROADSIDE BOMB KILLS 2 MND-B SOLDIERS
There are many more listed at the site. The killing and mayhem go on and on and on.
Over at MSNBC (several clicks from the front page), here are just a few of the reports:
Baghdad - Two U.S. soldiers were killed when their vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb in southern Baghdad, the U.S. military said.
NEAR TIKRIT - U.S. forces and Iraqi police found three bodies with bullet gunshot wounds, police said.
NEAR KIRKUK - Gunmen kidnapped Ali Hisham, head of the Turkmen Front party in the town of Tuz Khurmato, and his son near Kirkuk when they were returning from Baghdad, a senior party official said.
BAGHDAD - A bomb planted inside a building wounded 13 people in central Baghdad, police said.
BAGHDAD - A general in the Ministry of Defence was seriously wounded along with his driver when gunmen opened fire near his house in southwestern Baghdad, police said.
BAGHDAD - Two policemen were seriously wounded when a roadside bomb went off near their patrol in the eastern New Baghdad district, police said.
Again, it goes on and on and on. Yet, as of this time, checking the front pages for all of the major and cable news networks, none of it is mentioned -- not even the deaths of our soldiers. Flipping through the channels, I find the same thing. None of it is mentioned.
They do all manage to mention the new winner of American Idol on their front page. I guess that is more important than people dieing in Iraq.
