Why aren't the reporters flooding into Iraq to show us first hand the surge success?

[NNN0LHI]

You think they would all be there standing in the recently safe streets with camera crews in tow showing off McCains success. Wouldn't you? Why isn't Fox news and Geraldo over there with his little pistol doing man in the street interviews?

Why the lack of coverage if everything is going so swimmingly.

I will tell you why. The pictures would not reflect what we are being told to believe. That is why.

Don

[spanone]

1. the surge worked as political propaganda...now on to the next war in afghanistan

every picture, every word printed about iraq is vetted by the pentagon....

[wurzel]

2. Very good point!

[Smarmie Doofus]

3. Them can't. Them too *ascared*:

From today's NYTIMES:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/26/world/middleeast/26censor.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

[madokie]

4. Theres no doubt about it being a failure just as sure as I'm typing these words now.

[spanone]

5. i don't even see reporters 'reporting' from iraq....

are there ANY reporters in iraq?....not that i've seen

[MO_Dem]

6. Yeah! And why

isn't "Mission Accomplished" Bush there, prancing around Baghdad? He could even do a little shopping!

[The_Casual_Observer]

7. A rhetorical question?

:hi:

[liberal N proud]

8. They would have to shoot a scene like that on a Hollywood back lot

[truth2power]

9. Of course! I've asked that, here, before. Remember back when they said

there were amusement parks in Baghdad? That was over a year ago, IIRC. It was also during the same time period when bodies with drill holes were being dumped everywhere.

I said that I hoped they weren't dumping these bodies near the amusement parks. Would scare the children, don'tcha know. What farce!!

I don't understand why our supine press hasn't asked the obvious question: With Bush's love of photo-ops, why isn't that revolting POS over there, showing us around the place? Yeah, you are absolutely correct.

[malaise]

10. They won't because it's not safe.

Brian Williams knows he's safer in Iran. That's why he's gone there.

[Tindalos]

11. You expect them to do actual work?

It's so much easier to sit at home, making crap up. That's what they're paid to do anyway. It's been quite effective so far.

[mmonk]

12. They are trying to stay on message.

[pinto]

13. Good point. First person reports from Iraq are rare these days.

:shrug:

[Bozita]

14. The corporate media is all about profits. Foreign bureaus have been closed, newsrooms thinned.

It's not about news at all.

[wmbrew0206]

15. Have you noticed that the number of articles about Iraq per month are

proporitional with the amount of US causilties?

In news the old saying is "If it bleeds, it leads."

As the violence dropped in Iraq, so did the interest of the US media. This last week was the most articles about Iraq that the media has done in about six to eight months.

[GammaRay]

16. Because the "success" is a LIE!

[yurbud]

17. they don't want a Blackwater bullet in their head?

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

18. Amy Goodman

recently interviewed a man who served in the military in Iraq and who, after he came home, went back to report on behalf of a college newspaper as an embedded journalist. He said that his video footage of the fight for Basra showed hundreds of U.S.-backed Iraqi soldiers laying down their arms and refusing to fight. The U.S. military refused to allow him to show any of this.

[Kip Humphrey]

19. They don't want to get killed.