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[Master Adrian's Site] Reporters Say Networks Block War Reports: Logan said she begged for months to be embedded with a group of Navy Seals, and when she came back with the story, a CBS producer said to her, "One guy in uniform looks like any other guy in a uniform." In the follow-up phone interview, Ms. Logan said the producer no longer worked at CBS.
[Arizona Sports Fans Network] A War In Iraq Gets You...: “Generally what I say is, ”˜I’m holding the armor-piercing RPG,’ ” she said last week in an appearance on “The Daily Show,” referring to the initials for rocket-propelled grenade. “ ”˜It’s aimed at the bureau chief, and if you don’t put .
[The Carpetbagger Report] Coverage of the war has been ”˜massively scaled back this year’: I vaguely recall a time in which the war in Iraq was, and was expected to remain, the dominant issue in the discourse. Yes, a recent decline in violence may have helped push the war in Iraq off the front page, but it’s not as if the war .
[Main and Central] The Fawning Corporate Media: In a pre-FCM age, it would have been looked on as inopportune, at the least, to manufacture intelligence to justify another war hard on the heels of a congressional report that on Iraq the administration made significant claims not supported by the intelligence.
[Pat Dollard | Young Americans] Reporters Say Networks Put Wars On Back Burner: According to data compiled by Andrew Tyndall, a television consultant who monitors the three network evening newscasts, coverage of Iraq has been “massively scaled back this year.” Almost halfway into 2008, the three newscasts have shown 181 weekday minutes of Iraq coverage, compared with 1,157 minutes for all of 2007. The “CBS Evening News” has devoted the fewest minutes to Iraq, 51, versus 55 minutes on ABC’s “World News” and 74 minutes on “NBC Nightly News.” (The average evening newscast is 22 minutes long.)
[afterdowningstreet.org - Impeach Bush and Cheney Now!] Reporters Say Networks Block War Reports: Logan said the producer no longer worked at CBS. And in both interviews, she emphasized that many journalists at CBS News are pushing for war coverage, specifically citing Jeff Fager, the executive producer of "60 Minutes." CBS News won a Peabody Award last week for a "60 Minutes" report about a Marine charged in the killings at Haditha.
[Afghanistan Conflict Monitor] US Reporters Say Networks Put Wars On Back Burner: And for reporters in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is especially hard, according to Lara Logan, the chief foreign correspondent for CBS News. So she has devised a solution when she is talking to the network.
[Progressives, South Bend] Truthout Roundup 6/23: shttp://www.truthout.org/article/reporters-say-networks-block-war-reports Brian Stelter, of The New York Times, reports: "Getting a story on the evening news isn't easy for any correspondent. And for reporters in Iraq and Afghanistan, ...
[BEAUTIFUL, ALSO, ARE THE SOULS OF MY BLACK SISTERS] CARING FOR AMERICA’S WOMEN WARRIORS: And in the age of roadside bombs and rocket-propelled grenades, everyone is on the frontlines. Six hundred women have been injured-some returing like Tammy Duckworth, an Iraq veteran who heads the Illinois VA.
[neuronotes: nri's Brain Injury Blog] Insurgency Phase of Iraq War Increases Wound Severity: reported that in comparison to the invasion phase there has been a 50% increase in the mean number of major injuries per patient and in the percentage of patients dying before a physician could see them. The study compared 338 casualties treated by Marine Corps surgical team in March and April of 2003 with 895 treated from March 2004 to February 2005.The study looked at the causative factors in the increase, namely the increase in injuries from IED's, mortars and rocket propelled grenades as the combat shifted from invasion to guerrilla warfare.
[TRAVLINROSE'S GYPSY JOURNAL] REPORTERS SAY NETWORKS NOT COVERING IRAQ AND AFGHAN WARS BECAUSE ...: Richard Engel, the chief foreign correspondent for NBC News, who splits his time between Iraq and other countries, said he found his producers “very receptive to stories about Iraq.” He and other journalists noted that the heated presidential primary campaign put other news stories on the back burner earlier this year.
[SWJ Blog] 21 June SWJ News, Op-Ed, and Events Roundup: Although Hugh Herr was a respected professor at Harvard Medical School, he says finding someone to bankroll a new prosthetic knee project was tough before the Iraq war. He could get funding from the prosthetic industry, but government sources showed little interest.
[Wired: Danger Room] Insurgent American Drone Discovered in Baghdad Cache (Updated): "During operations yesterday," it reads, "Iraq soldiers... discovered a huge cache in Baghdad’s West Rashid district." The cache contained 90 rockets, nine mortars, a rocket-propelled grenade launcher, 13 improvised mines, .
[AmericasNewsToday.Com /.Org - Industry's First Blog-Format News and Editorial Site] Hollywood Effects Aid Marine Training: Article photo: Marines from Battalion Landing Team 2/6, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, move between buildings during training, June 10, 2008, at Muscatatuck Urban Training Center, in Butlerville, Ind. The Marines were using the facility during the 26th MEU's realistic urban training exercise, part of the MEU's predeployment training period.
[mothanskin.blog-city.com] "Pakistani Fatalities In US Coalition Incursion": Pakistani villagers carry a coffin of Pakistan's paramilitary soldier who lost his life during a clash at Pakistan-Afghanistan border, Wednesday, June 11, 2008, for burial in Peshawar, Pakistan. Pakistan's army on Wednesday accused the U.S.-led coalition of killing 11 Pakistani paramilitary troops in an airstrike along the volatile Afghan border.
[SWJ Blog] 20 June SWJ News, Op-Ed, and Events Roundup: Jeffrey Chessani, had charges dropped Tuesday in the so-called Haditha massacre - bringing the total number of Marines who've been cleared or won case dismissals in the Iraq war incident to seven. "Undue command influence" on the prosecution led to the outcome in Col.
[Dans Blog] The Next Battleground in Iraq....: Iraqi officials say that militias and weapons smuggling from Iran has created a chaotic situation. The city is also located in the only province in Iraq where the local government is run by politicians aligned with Moktada al-Sadr, the Shiite cleric who is both a political rival of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki and the leader of the Mahdi Army militia group.
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