Media should be ashamed for ignoring the 8 marines

[Bleacher Creature]

. . . who were killed yesterday. Are they so afraid of getting brow beaten by Karl Rove that they were afraid of publicizing it??

[ogradda]

1. yes they should be

n/t

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. One any day is bad enough. Eight in one day is severe.

Connect this to Powell's reported sharing with friends that he thinks Bush is losing the Iraq war.

[kokomo]

3. But watch them cover the impending "major assault" coming SOON!

"We are gearing up to do a major operation, and when we are told to go, we will go," said Brig. Gen. Dennis J. Hejlik, deputy commander of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, which is responsible for security in the area. "When we go . . . we're going to go in there and whack them."


Hejlik said the Marines were awaiting orders from Iraq's interim prime minister, Ayad Allawi, to launch an offensive in Fallujah and in Ramadi, the nearby provincial capital. Iraqi security forces and U.S. Army units would also take part in the operation, he added."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1802&e=20&u=/washpost/20041030/ts_washpost/a8960_2004oct29

[TacticalPeek]

10. Marines awaiting orders from the foreigner Allawi?

Kinda like a "foreign government" having a veto over US nat sec?

Hoodathunk.

:evilgrin:

[xultar]

4. Why???? They ignored the other 1,094 n/t

[TwilightZone]

5. Sad to say, but it's become commonplace and, therefore, not "news".

And that is a sad statement, indeed. They're too busy trying to get Bush elected.

[da_chimperor]

6. Eight? The BBC says nine killed and nine wounded

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3967803.stm

It IS despicable. Isn't this the largest number of US soldiers killed at the same time?

[Bluebear]

7. #224, #663, #942, what's it to them?

They've done a great job of ignoring them all.

[ClintonTyree]

8. They're not allowed to................

we can't have people knowing the truth about Iraq. It's all going great over there. Freedom is on the march! It's close to a utopian society now that Bush has bombed the country back into the stone age. The "Main Stream Media" are a bunch of spineless worms.

[Cobalt Violet]

9. You mean instead of telling viewers how OBL tape is good for Bush?

What a shameful media corportate Amerika has brought us.

[Philosophy]

11. Covering it would be "disguising political statements as news content"

Because letting the American public know about US military personnel killed in Iraq is "motivated by a political agenda designed to undermine the efforts of the United States in Iraq."

[DeepModem Mom]

12. kick

[Randi_Listener]

13. BRING 'EM ON!