PDA

View Full Version : The news media on Iraq


BobHunt
15th November 2006, 07:40 PM (19:40)
I know I have posted another time about the news media and that they have a political agenda about their reporting. Many of you heard about the HUGE kidnapping in Iraq, one channel reported nearly 150 people kidnapped, and they showed a woman screaming at the top of her lungs in terror. They said, "Now multiply this by 100 and you will see what it is really like here."
At the same exact time, down to the minute, another channel said, "Oh well, this kidnapping only included 50 people at the most and most of them have been released" and made no mention at all of the screaming woman."
Now, you tell me that THIS is exactly presenting the news, as it happens? It is obvious that somebody is really making up a tall tale of a story for some kind of gain.

Mark Doble
16th November 2006, 10:00 AM (10:00)
I know I have posted another time about the news media and that they have a political agenda about their reporting. Many of you heard about the HUGE kidnapping in Iraq, one channel reported nearly 150 people kidnapped, and they showed a woman screaming at the top of her lungs in terror. They said, "Now multiply this by 100 and you will see what it is really like here."
At the same exact time, down to the minute, another channel said, "Oh well, this kidnapping only included 50 people at the most and most of them have been released" and made no mention at all of the screaming woman."
Now, you tell me that THIS is exactly presenting the news, as it happens? It is obvious that somebody is really making up a tall tale of a story for some kind of gain.

Can they even pull the same weather forecast together? It does not surprise me in the least. I don't believe them any more. Just fiction with a bit of the truth mixed in for some political gain.