Enough Really Is Enough

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This is an outstanding piece by Lieutenant Colonel Tim Ryan, U.S. Army. He very eloquently lays out the truth of how the media is failing us, big time.

[[ All right, I've had enough. I am tired of reading distorted and grossly exaggerated stories from major news organizations about the "failures" in the war in Iraq. "The most trusted name in news" and a long list of others continue to misrepresent the scale of events in Iraq. Print and video journalists are covering only a fraction of the events in Iraq and, more often than not, the events they cover are only negative. ]]

Media Coverage Distorts Iraq Reality

I wonder if there is a post-Army journalism career in store for LtCol Ryan? Oh, wait... he tells the truth! Never mind.

In a post script, LtCol Ryan discusses the military's efforts to get the media involved.

[[ I have had my staff aggressively pursue media coverage for all sorts of events that tell the other side of the story only to have them turned down or ignored by the press in Baghdad. Strangely, I found it much easier to lure the Arab media to a "non-lethal" event than the western outlets. Open a renovated school or a youth center and I could always count on Al-Iraqia or even Al-Jazeera to show up, but no western media ever showed up - ever. Now I did have a pretty dangerous sector, the Abu Ghuraib district that extends from western Baghdad to the outskirts of Fallujah (not including the prison), but it certainly wasn't as bad as Fallujah in November and there were reporters in there. ]]

Reprehensible.

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