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| Blaming the media for victory |
| 2007-11-05 |
| Don Surber Madeleine Bunting wrote a different column about for the London Guardian today. As victory nears, she blames the media for failing to report the news to her liking. She cited Dahr Jamail, whom she described as “a mountain guide in Alaska in 2003 who began to take an interest in US foreign policy.” Dahr Jamail decided to become an independent reporter in Iraq reporting the war from the civilian side. Said Bunting: “After more than three years of reporting he has post-traumatic stress disorder, but has not lost his conviction that ‘if the people of the United States had the real story about what their government has done in Iraq, the occupation would already have ended’.” Bunting goes on to blast the media for not reporting “the real story about what their government has done in Iraq.” Here’s the problem with that: It has. The trouble is so many of those Americans-are-evil stories turned out to be untrue or exaggerations at best. . . . Bunting now blames the media for not reporting the horrors of war because if it had, the public would want the troops to be brought home immediately. Seems to me that happened. And yet we stayed and seem to be winning. Bunting’s column began with praise for a fictional suicide bomber: “Her assertion sticks in the mind because it goes straight to the heart of how we choose to forget, choose not to understand; and how from such choices it becomes possible to imagine our innocence.” After all the made-up stories and doctored photos, I can see why Bunting prefers to believe in fictional characters rather than real people. What a fun world that Bunting must live in. All the evil of the world resides at 10 Downing Street and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue — and only she can see it. Along with fictional suicide bombers. And Captain Jamil Hussein, of course. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #1 Madeleine Bunting got taken apart by humans when she chose to interview Al Qaradawi. There are many questions that should be put to Al Qaradawi. For example, we know that Qaradawi endorses the punishment of homosexuality by stoning, being thrown from a high building, being whipped 100 times or imprisonment until death. But there has been some debate as to which of these punishments Qaradawi thinks the state that he hopes to create should impose. I hope Madeleine Bunting will take this opportunity to ask him which of these punishments he favours. If she is upset about the new then there is hope. |
| Posted by: Icerigger 2007-11-05 14:31 |