If there were great news out of Iraq, which media outlet would be the least likely to report it?
a. An anti-American news network from Qatar
b. A terrorist-run television station in Lebanon
c. The New York Times
d. The Washington Post
If you answered “a” or “b,” you were contradicted by last week’s coverage. Some absolutely magnificent news did come out of Iraq last Thursday, yet, hard as it might be to believe, subscribers to The New York Times and The Washington Post would have been better off visiting the websites of the anti-American television network Al-Jazeera, or the Hezbollah-run television station Al-Manar if they wanted to find out about it.
The following are the surprising opening paragraphs of Thursday’s report by Al-Jazeera.net – a media outlet never shy about its hatred for America or its support for Islamic terrorists – in a story amazingly titled “‘End’ of al-Qaeda in Iraq,” and containing information that neither The Times nor The Post shared with their readers:
“An Iraqi security adviser has predicted ‘the end of al-Qaeda’ in his country, on a day that a mosque was attacked, labourers were shot and the US said it had lost 2,500 troops there so far.
“Mowaffaq al-Rubaie told a televised news conference in Baghdad on Thursday that his country’s security forces had seized documents giving them the edge over the group.
“‘We believe this is the beginning of the end of al-Qaeda in Iraq,’ he said.”
Not only didn’t this news reach the front pages of The New York Times or The Washington Post, but also this entire assessment by Iraq’s national security advisor went unreported by either of these publications’ print editions despite an extraordinary amount of coverage given by both organizations to all things Iraq"Not only didn’t this news reach the front pages of The New York Times or The Washington Post, but also this entire assessment by Iraq’s national security advisor went unreported by either of these publications’ print editions despite an extraordinary amount of coverage given by both organizations to all things Iraq.
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Game: Off topic here, liberal media blah, blah, blah.
I just thought I would let you know that some posters on my blog have decided that I am really a conservative cuz I don't agree with them. I wouldn't get active in the local Democratic party so I must be the enemy! Now that is some sick so called liberals(they are really control freaks). If you are looking for "liberals" that really are wacked I can find them for you!:-)I'm not too fond of what the dem party, with some exceptions, are doing on a national basis.
I take great offense to being called a conservative. I'd rather have you call me a pussy liberal. So as you see, I'm taking it all the way around these days.
My dad always said, it's the makins' of you if you can take it.
Yeah, but you get all anti-Libertarian game whenever I mention adults being able to make their own choices, and getting the government noses out of places they dont have a right to be. It works both ways.
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