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All you need to know about our media....
http://www.antimedia.us/posts/1150685645.shtml


   ....is encapsulated in [1]these two quotes.

     For his latest Media Reality Check on the rush to cover the alleged
     Marine massacre at Haditha, Rich Noyes discovered evidence that
     NBC's Baghdad-based reporter Richard Engel really does sound like
     he's a senior fellow at the Peter Arnett School of Advanced
     America-Hating Journalism. He's lecturing the Iraqi journalists for
     being appallingly slow on spreading the Haditha story before it's
     proven: Rich's summary of this quote was "Iraqis Falling Down on
     the Job."

     Reporter Richard Engel:
     "Not mentioned in the [Iraqi TV news] broadcast: Haditha, where
     U.S. Marines allegedly murdered 24 civilians last November. It was
     first reported here in detail last week, and only then because the
     incident was denounced by the Prime Minister. Now, itâs barely on
     the news. Today at state-sponsored al-Iraqiya TV, we asked the news
     director why."

     Karim Hamadi, al-Iraqiya TV:
     "If we played it up or sensationalized it, more Iraqis would want
     to attack U.S. troops, and more Iraqis would die." -- NBC Nightly
     News, June 5.

   Of course, the death of US troops is not the concern of our media.
   They're simply after the "truth" as they see it.

References

   1. http://newsbusters.org/node/5954