Michelle Malkin has an outstanding post on the Cindy Sheehan phenomenon. I can only add a link to what President Bush had to say Thursday from Crawford, Texas to all of the families and friends of Iraq War victims.
Posted by dan at August 12, 2005 01:20 AM | TrackBackNewsFlash - NY Times says they're too negative with Iraq coverage... (ya think???)
I wonder who got batteries for their clue-meter.
View the whole article at (registration req'd):
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/15/business/media/15apee.html
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It was uncomfortable questioning The A.P., knowing that Iraq is such a dangerous place," she said. "But there's a perception that we're not telling the whole story."
Mr. Silverman said in an interview that he was aware of that perception. "Other editors said they get calls from readers who are hearing stories from returning troops of the good things they have accomplished while there, and readers find that at odds with the generally gloomy portrayal in the papers of what's going on in Iraq," he said.
Mr. Silverman said the editors were asking for help in making sense of the situation. "I was glad to have that discussion with the editors because they have to deal with the perception that the media is emphasizing the negative," he said.
"We're there to report the good and the bad and we try to give due weight to everything going on," he said. "It is unfortunate that the explosions and shootings and fatalities and injuries on some days seem to dominate the
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Chrenkoff has published his 33rd edition of "Good news from Iraq"
http://chrenkoff.blogspot.com/2005/08/good-news-from-iraq-part-33.html