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2005-08-15 Iraq-Jordan

You'll Never See This on CNN or in the New York Times

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Posted by Bobby 2005-08-15 07:50|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Rock on, guys! I still love to hear about our troops doing good from someone else BESIDES them.

Posted by mmurray821 2005-08-15 09:23|| 2005-08-15 09:23|| Front Page Top

#2 The car's driver was killed in the attack, but no one else was killed or injured.

HA! HA! No virgins for you!

Posted by JerseyMike 2005-08-15 09:24|| 2005-08-15 09:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Both men where taken into custody for questioning.

NYT Headline: Journalists targetted and kidnapped by US Forces

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-08-15 09:29|| 2005-08-15 09:29|| Front Page Top

#4 AFAICT the rest of the press has not picked up on yesterdays WaPo story about Ramadi, which may be the most significant good news of all - that members of the Sunni Dulaimi tribe, attempting to protect their Shia neighbors from ethnic cleansing, chased Zarq's thugs out of town.

Posted by liberalhawk 2005-08-15 09:30|| 2005-08-15 09:30|| Front Page Top

#5 what's worse for the LA Times and NYT and WAPO is not only do they not carry the stories of the day, but when they do - I question the reliability of their version of events. If you have stock - sell, baby, sell. The chances of them recovering are getting slimmer each day.

Posted by 2b 2005-08-15 09:36|| 2005-08-15 09:36|| Front Page Top

#6 Though not detailed enough to compete with Lh (heh), here's a handy-dandy reference some might be interested in checking out from time to time.

Posted by .com 2005-08-15 10:08|| 2005-08-15 10:08|| Front Page Top

#7 NYT, 6 month chart. It's gotta suck being long on that stock.

Posted by Raj 2005-08-15 10:14|| 2005-08-15 10:14|| Front Page Top

#8 Lol, Raj! Reminded me of this killer Iowahawk post, originally written in 2003, where he literally eviscerates them, heh.

Posted by .com 2005-08-15 10:25|| 2005-08-15 10:25|| Front Page Top

#9 Here is something worse. NYT exec's dumping stock or as the analysts say, "exercising options." Riiight!

Keep a count of the number of red "S". S=sell. You can count the green "B" on one hand.

Here is the link...

Posted by Poison Reverse 2005-08-15 10:43|| 2005-08-15 10:43|| Front Page Top

#10 Raj, click on the 2 year view, and you see the decline begins in early 2004. Wonder what was happening then? Anyone know? Bueller?

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2005-08-15 10:53|| 2005-08-15 10:53|| Front Page Top

#11 actually the NYT had a pretty decent article on Sunday about the Iraqi force thats taken over the Haifa street district in central Baghdad from American forces. for those without NYT passwords, you can see the article via Yahoo.

again, i see no reference to this in the WaPo or elsewhere.

Which shows an interesting pattern. Good news stories from Iraq ARE written by reporters in the field, and make it into the papers. But nobody at those papers is trying to pull those together into a coherent strategic analysis - overviews are typically left to the Washington bureaus, NOT the Baghdad bureaus, and are slanted (like Sundays WaPo article by Robin Wright).

Posted by liberalhawk 2005-08-15 11:46|| 2005-08-15 11:46|| Front Page Top

#12 I just read an article about Newsweek, they can't even figure out why their sales have gone down. Can you believe that, they can't figure it out.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2005-08-15 15:01|| 2005-08-15 15:01|| Front Page Top

#13 Easy Bigjim. When you live in an alternate universe, you actually do believe the earth is the center of it all, and the sun/moon/planets/stars all revolve around it. When the math doesn't add up, you just keep coming up with excuses why it 'should' be that way instead of investigating the underlying assumptions of how the universe really operates. And before you think that is just cute, remember we still say 'sunrise' and 'sunset' even in this post Copernicus/Galileo/Kepler world.

Posted by Jirt Omager7355 2005-08-15 15:29|| 2005-08-15 15:29|| Front Page Top

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