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 Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 6:30 pm Post subject: Jacoby: The good news from Iraq is not fit to print |
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Another epitaph for the MSM in it's headlong slide to irrelevancy...and from a Globe pundit to boot...I'll have to read more Jacoby...
| Quote: | The good news from Iraq is not fit to print
By Jeff Jacoby
Globe Columnist
November 2, 2005
No question: If you think that defeating Islamofascism, extending liberty, and transforming the Middle East are important, it's safe to say you saw the ratification of the new constitution as the Iraqi news story of the week.
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But that isn't a message Big Media cares to emphasize. Hostile to the war and to the administration conducting it, the nation's leading news outlets harp on the negative and pessimistic, consistently underplaying all that is going right in Iraq. Their fixation on the number of troops who have died outweighs their interest in the cause for which those fallen heroes fought -- a cause that advanced with the ratification of the new constitution.
Poll after poll confirms the public's low level of confidence in mainstream media news. Gallup recently measured that confidence at 28 percent, an all-time low. Why such mistrust? The media's slanted coverage of Iraq provides a pretty good clue.
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