what media is missing from ISG report

[medeak]

What the media aren't telling you about the Iraq Study Group report
Summary: Media Matters for America has identified six findings in the Iraq Study Group's report that major news outlets have largely overlooked. They include: that the Pentagon has significantly underreported the extent of violence in Iraq, that U.S. officials possess little knowledge about the sources of the ongoing attacks, and that the situation in Afghanistan has grown so dire that U.S. troops may need to be diverted there from Iraq.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200612080004

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. and how much you wanna bet

we won't hear about this on the nightly news? Empty-headed blondes and their escapades are more newsworthy. :sarcasm:

[valerief]

2. The truth has been missing from mass media for years. nt

[babylonsister]

3. LAT gets some of it right. This recently posted in LBN:

LAT: Afghanistan war nears 'tipping point': Another long, costly fight with Islamic insurgency? Updated at 3:44 PM

Afghanistan war nears 'tipping point'
Government support is flagging, NATO is split on strategy, and Taliban fighters are revitalized.
By Laura King and David Holley, Times Staff Writers
December 9, 2006

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN — The conflict in Afghanistan has entered a dangerous phase, and the next three to six months could prove crucial in determining whether the United States and its NATO partners can suppress a revitalized enemy — or will be dragged into another drawn-out and costly fight with an Islamic insurgency, according to senior military and security officials and diplomats.

"I think we are approaching a tipping point, perhaps early in the new year," said a Western diplomat in the region, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the situation publicly.

Popular support for the central government is faltering, and Western military allies are deeply divided over how best to combat the insurgency.

On the other side of the fight, the Taliban has regained the strength to dominate large swaths of Afghanistan; government control is tenuous at best in at least 20% of the country, according to several Western diplomats and Afghan officials.

Militants have built a network of bases in the tribal hinterlands that straddle the frontier with Pakistan. Over the last year, a growing number of mobile encampments on the Afghan side of the border have given the insurgents greater self-sufficiency, military officials say, although the guerrillas still draw heavily on logistical support and weaponry funneled from the Pakistani side....

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-ins...