ABC, USA Today ignored British army commander's call for troop withdrawal
SUMMARY: While many other media outlets carried the story, ABC's World News and USA Today made no mention of a British army commander's October 12 claim that the presence of British troops in Iraq is fueling violence, and that British military forces should be withdrawn from the country.
The October 12 broadcast of ABC's World News with Charles Gibson and the October 13 edition of USA Today made no mention of British army commander Lt. Gen. Sir Richard Dannatt's October 12 claim that the presence of British troops in Iraq is fueling violence, and that British military forces should be withdrawn from the country.
In an interview with the Daily Mail (UK), Dannatt, the chief of the general staff of the British army, said that the British should "get ourselves out" of Iraq "sometime soon because our presence exacerbates the security problems." Dannatt's remarks were reported on the October 12 broadcasts of NBC's Nightly News with Brian Williams and the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, as well as in The New York Times and The Washington Post. The Los Angeles Times printed an October 12 Associated Press report.
The October 13 edition of USA Today featured two articles on Iraq: one on the number of journalists killed in Iraq since the war began, and another about two soldiers who were friends in high school and who were killed two days apart in Iraq. The October 12 broadcast of ABC's World News featured no reporting on Iraq.
ABC broke the Foley story so please don't tell me they didn't report THIS story because of some kind of Conservative BIAS.
Ok 2 news outlets didn't print/announce the story about the British army commander claim. MANY more did. Even Fox.
It's threads like THIS that, IMO, cross the line into whining on the part of MMFA.
So leaving you all on that negative note...Me & the Mrs are off to Nashville. See ya all in 10 days.
I'll give all your regards to Faith Hill ;-)
1o days in Nashville? Well, shut my mouth.
Have a wonderful and safe trip!!
The fact that not every person or media source is 100% corrupt does not mean that they are not corrupt some of the time. The fact that ABC broke the Foley story does not mean that they cannot miss another story that they should have covered.
Why does this common sense determination baffle Jeter?
Should his retracted statements be covered also?
In his subsequent radio and television interviews, he said he was not suggesting an immediate withdrawal.
“I’m a soldier. We don’t do surrender. We don’t pull down white flags. We’re going to see this through,” he said.
“But we’ve got to get on with it. We can’t be there for years and years,” Dannatt said.
[link to www.msnbc.msn.com]
That's what he said after his superiors had chewed him out over the phone a few minutes after he said it.
His first statement was his true feelings, the second made under pressure.
It's reminiscent of the "Domino Theory"...
One by One and One after Another, they fall according to Nature and Truth...
First it was the People, then it was their agents in Congress (or Parliament), and lastly their leadership...
"Let's get out of Iraq... why the heck did we even invade that country in the first place?"
That's where they have fallen now, those "dominos".
It's the reverse of the way the "dominos" were set up at the beginning...
The leadership lied, their agents in Congress (and Parliament) forwarded and endorsed those lies, and some number of the People believed (though far fewer than was officially reported).
It has become an amusing thing, to see so many "officials" fall so belatedly... so long after so many of the People who already knew.
I think it to be outside reality, to expect Mr. Murtha to be our next Secretary of Defense...
But that our next Secretary of Defense meet with the approval of Mr. Murtha, is what I'd expect, from a Democratically-controlled U.S. House of Representatives.
>>"ABC, USA Today ignored British army commander's call for troop withdrawal" --Media Matters<<
The key word above is "ignored". Because there simply is no other explanation as to why ABC and USA Today did not run with this very significant story, except that they made the decision to ignore it.
You'll be relieved to know, however, that USA Today did not turn a blind eye to "20-foot Chocolate Tower Sets the World Record".
everyone knows (or they bloody well should) that coalition forces are exacerbating problems in Iraq...not evrybody knows that someone made a 20ft tower of chocolate setting the world record.
>>"everyone knows (or they bloody well should) that coalition forces are exacerbating problems in Iraq.."<<
But that is NOT the story that was ignored. If you read USA Today or watched ABC's World News, you would not be aware that the British army commander called for withdrawal of his troops. To place this news on the same par with a fluff story about chocolate shows a serious lack of sense for priorities.
that reports of the British Comman-- Did you say TWENTY FOOT CHOCOLATE TOWER?? WOW!!
Do you have a link? Quagmire, shmagmire!