Immolate: I feel the same way about it as you do. If the “news” media simply reported the facts and worked equally hard to verify both negative and positive stories (that is if they bothered to report any positive stories) we might not have these feelings.

The CBS National Guard documents story was a perfect example. CBS didn’t try very hard to verify the documents authenticity because they wanted them to be real. It fit their bias and prejudices regarding Bush.

The sad part about all this is that even with the weakening of the lamestream media monopoly, they still have this incredible power to send half baked stories screaming onto the front pages of “news” papers and airwaves all over the world.

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Any chance someone could bother a CENTCOM public affairs type to see if any of these reports are real? It would be great to have a scoreboard of reported deaths by AP and show how many of those reports are false.

There are sites out there that gather media stats for deaths and tally them over the months as some kind of progress indicator. One such page is this one at iCasualties.org.

It seems to me that CENTCOM could be well served putting a public affairs person to work looking at these reports and debunking them quickly when they are false.

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I think it’s great that you are working so hard to “out” these “sources”. I wait daily for the MSM to admit to their propaganda and begin to actually report the truth. I won’t hold my breath.

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*heavy sigh*

For most of my adult life, I have viewed the news with a jaundiced eye, suspecting the insertion of editorial bias through a careful choosing of which facts were important and which not and which words should be used to describe a situation. The assumption was always there, somewhere in the background shadows, that the facts themselves were at least accurate, or as accurate as the situation allowed, especially when attributed by a dispassionate official from law enforcement or military.

Now I have begun to look at even the facts cross-eyed. Pictures lie, stringers lie, video lies and now wire services lie. The machinery of fact gathering has become broken, but instead of producing faulty information that is readily identifiable, it produces perfect-looking information that is false.

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Getting The News From The Enemy, Update V

Courtesy of Flopping Aces:
The ever talented Jamil Hussein has been hard to find in the news lately. The AP has yet to produce him nor have they used him as a source for any reporting. But the AP is up to its old tricks once again. This time using…

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