Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Good Morning America pokes back at Bush criticism

While getting ready this morning, I had Good Morning America on. One of their top stories was how the President took shots at the media yesterday for only reporting the bad news from Iraq. Well, it seemed as though they might actually for once take a fair look at the Iraq situation. That's what it sounded like from the intro anyway.

Then they threw it to one of their reporters over in Iraq. The point of the story was that they were going to present both positive and negative stories and let the viewers decide which one they would report on (through sending in email). Ok, seemed like a good idea, right? So, the reporter starts out with a caution for all viewers. He said something along the lines of "now as we take you through these stories, please remember that 38 reporters have been killed over here in Iraq, and another X amount have been injured. Also lets not forget about (insert name here) who was taken hostage and never heard from again." There was absolutely no point to adding this to the story. It had nothing to do with what the story was supposedly about. This reporter was not even out at the site of the bombings they were about to show.

They then showed about a 2 minute long clip of all the different stories out of Iraq yesterday. Apparently we were supposed to see good stories and bad stories and be able to decide for ourselves. Well, they showed bombings, beheadings, and killings for about the first minute and 45 seconds of the story. The end was basically "oh and by the way" soldiers helped build a school and hand out books to children, and there was also a festival that was banned under saddam. This story was absolutely pathetic and showed exactly why Bush was justified in saying what he did yesterday.

The reporter finished the story by adding that the Iraq media shows much more violence and more graphic pictures than the American press does. The way he said it was like saying "well, they're worse than us, so we must be justified." Once again, what did this have to do with the actual story. Oh yeah, nothing!

But, no, there is no liberal media, right?

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posted by David @ 7:18 AM   1 comments

1 Comments:

At 8:59 PM, Blogger David said...

Today was truly a rare event in the media. How long has it been since we've seen a story like this? Yeah, that's what I thought. Even though this was a positive story it still has the violence, cruelty, and kidnappings written all over it.

When's the last time we heard anything about the thousands of reconstruction projects that are currently in the works and already finished. Yeah, thought so.

And the media is Bush's problem. But the thing is, he really doesn't care all that much what people think of him. Sure he doesn't want bad poll numbers, but does it change who he is as a President? Hell no. He knows that sometimes a leader has to make decisions that some people might not like. Filter that with the liberal media lens and you get a President with approval ratings around 40%.

 

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