Iraq Study Group: What the Media Aren't Telling You!

[RiverStone]

Major News Outlets Largely Ignore Six Key Findings in the Report

Washington, DC - In the day following the release of the report by the Iraq Study Group, major news outlets have largely overlooked numerous significant disclosures in the 100-page report. Media Matters for America has identified six such findings, including that the Pentagon has significantly underreported the amount of violence in Iraq, and highlighted the major news outlets, like The Wall Street Journal, that have failed to report on all six.

"It's troubling, though not surprising, that the media have largely ignored significant conclusions made by this bipartisan commission," said David Brock, President and CEO of Media Matters. "When the Iraq Study Group report discloses such findings as the underreporting of the violence in Iraq and a dire assessment of the current state of affairs in Afghanistan, the media should have taken the time to inform the public. Instead they have allowed these alarming discoveries to remain buried. That is unacceptable."

The Media Matters survey included the articles published by six major print outlets on December 7, the reporting by the three major cable news channels on December 6, and the three broadcast networks' coverage on their December 6 evening news programs and their December 7 morning shows. While most outlets included in the survey reported on some of the disclosures, The Wall Street Journal, CBS News, and Fox News failed to report on any of the six findings.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200612080008

[LuckyLib]

1. And why are we not surprised? This is business as usual

for our corporate media.:mad:

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. I suspect each of the 6 is an indictment of the MSM's role as

white house stenographer, and worse, as cheerleader for this war, refusing to cover even the slightest anti-war posture.

the corpserations who own MSM have a lot to answer for. Notice how they have felt the pulse of America and are beginning to criticize boy george? That is not real journalism, it is a desperate effort to avoid becoming immaterial, as blogs, sites like this and overseas news become more commonplace and trustworthy.

[EST]

3. Keith Olbermann scores again!