Washington,
Mar 27 -
When was the last time you picked up the newspaper and found a front-page story highlighting an American hero in Iraq? What have you heard about the nearly 3000 schools that have been built or rehabilitated in Iraq? The media bias in Iraq is becoming more and more apparent. Here’s what one moderate-liberal leaning reporter who covers Congress, Mort Kondracke had to say about the media coverage of the Iraq war:
“Well, Bob Lichter of the Center for Media and Public affairs who tracks what is on TV every night and says that the coverage is two to three to one negative since the beginning of the war. And the question is, is the story that bad? But there -- there's clearly things that are missing from the coverage. One of them is, you never see anything about American heroes. There's -- whoever is winning silver stars, we don't know anything about it. Who are these people who are willing to volunteer to be Iraqi policemen and in danger of getting themselves blown up or willing to serve as members of parliament and risking their lives? Why are they doing it? And what have they got to say?
“You know, attacks on American troops are down. We reported that yesterday, but I haven't seen that much in the newspapers.
“You know, you get the impression that whenever the terrorists pull off something, like the Samarra bombing, or the butchery that goes on that it is somehow our fault, you know, it's evidence that we couldn't protect these people as opposed to the monsters that the enemy is. And I think this is the unrelieved kind of stuff that comes through the American media.” – Mort Kondracke, Fox News Channel March 23, 2006
