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2003-06-04 Iraq

NBC Undermines ABC & BBC Reports that Belittled POW Rescue

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Posted by Steve 2003-06-04 09:19 am|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Peter Jennings should make like Sammy Sosa and put a cork in it. The whole idea of staging a media stunt in a war zone is so ignorant to begin with, but then so many reporters are so ignorant of anything military they have no credibility--although they are great at getting in touch with their feelings, or the feelings of the eyewitness, which is always the yardstick by which a truly newsworthy story is measured.

Posted by Dar 2003-06-04 09:41:33|| 2003-06-04 09:41:33|| Front Page Top

#2 This is the same lack of fact checking that has been discovered at the New York Times and Los Angeles Times. It is time that ABC, the BBC, and CNN look in the mirror, and admit that they carry a bias in their reporting. This however, isn't simply bias. They loath Pres. Bush, and will stop at nothing, especially telling lies, in order to harm the upcoming 2004 campaign.

Posted by VRWC Colorado Chapter (Vast Right Wing Conspiracy) 2003-06-04 09:48:07|| 2003-06-04 09:48:07|| Front Page Top

#3 Jennings was surely more proud of the military actions of his own Canadian troops...oh, wait...

Posted by Frank G 2003-06-04 09:52:48|| 2003-06-04 09:52:48|| Front Page Top

#4 how about some kudos for NBC?

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-06-04 10:13:13|| 2003-06-04 10:13:13|| Front Page Top

#5 What the mass media has to realize is that they don't control information anymore. They aren't the only conduit. They can't smugly push their biases past people anymore and get away with it. Thanks to the net, there's a mountain of info out there from all sides of the spectrum and plenty of people around to explore it. Things will be checked out and the media will get called on it when they screwup or flat out lie because they twist what they report to fit their agendas. What amazes me is how slowly the mass media outlets and their people seem to be catching on to this fact.
Get your facts straight, folks. If you don't, someone WILL nail you for it.

Posted by tu3031 2003-06-04 10:15:48|| 2003-06-04 10:15:48|| Front Page Top

#6 [H]ow about some kudos for NBC?

If I could be sure it was for "journalistic integrity" and not to protect NBC's own upcoming, made-for-TV movie "Saving Jessica Lynch", then I'd be willing to grant some kudos.

Posted by Dar 2003-06-04 10:51:06|| 2003-06-04 10:51:06|| Front Page Top

#7 Yes and does anyone remember about the fact they had to dig all the bodies of the other POWs with their bare hands while there? And most of all, how about that big floor map in the basement of this so called hospital? Seems to me they were quite prudent going in well armed even if there wasn't a lot of resistance. You just never know if the whole thing was a big trap.

Posted by Phil 2003-06-04 13:19:08|| 2003-06-04 13:19:08|| Front Page Top

#8 To add to what Phil wrote, the hospital was also being used as a military HQ (at least the basement was) and was staffed up until six hours before the raid.

Posted by Dar 2003-06-04 14:24:20|| 2003-06-04 14:24:20|| Front Page Top

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