Suppress That! - (Spinning the Fallujah Carnage)

[reprehensor]

http://www.thenation.com/outrage/index.mhtml?pid=1383

Eye-witness accounts from Fallujah -- for example, "Sarajevo on the Euphrates" just published by The Nation -- make clear what's incredibly obvious: It's intense urban combat, which means all sorts of collateral damage -- mosques, hospitals, ambulances, women, children.

A Fallujah hospital director told The Associated Press most of the 600 dead recorded so far were civilians. But most American media have glossed quickly over that -- just as they on other days when the brunt of the war fell on civilians.

One of the only news networks that's been broadcasting from the heart of the violence has been Qatar-based Al-Jazeera.

"Al-Jazeera had their reporter literally embedded in the middle of the chaos -- and I don't mean the lame embedded Western journalists type of thing they had going at the beginning of the war (you know -- embedded in the Green Zone and embedded in Kuwait, etc.)," reports the engaging Girl Blog from Iraq -- one of those pro-freedom-and-democracy Iraqis we ought to pay more attention to. After days spent tracking events in Fallujah, she recalls being impressed by an Al-Jazeera correspondent "actually standing there, in the middle of the bombing, shouting to be heard over the F-16s and helicopters blasting away at houses and buildings."

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[mike_c]

1. the journalists who provide the best war coverage are often...

...the ones for whom the truth holds the most moral relevancy. Others seek to varnish the truth or hide it altogether.

[riverwalker]

2. I am so ashamed

Let's see, what was Toby Keith singing again, oh yeah....does this toad have any more jingoistic songs about killing children? And now he's starring in FORD commercials, a spokesman for "family cars"?

"You'll be sorry that you messed with the US of A
'Cuz we'll put a boot in your ass
It's the American way.
And the eagle will fly,
And there's gonna be Hell,
When you hear Mother Freedom start ringing her bell!
And it'll feel like the whole wide world is raining down on you...
Brought to you courtesy of the Red, White and Blue"

[Miss Authoritiva]

3. Why should you feel ashamed?

Anger, yes. Shame, no.

As to Toby Keith: Yikes! What an opportunistic wanker.