Ah, the standard response. We're at fault so we should ignore anything that has improved there since we went in. Electricity on? It was our fault it was off so why bother reporting it. Water? Same deal. Anything good that can be reported from Iraq can be ignored because it can be stacked against "but its our fault it was broken". And in this way we allow the media more and more control over what we see as true. It's not truth, it's their opinion. It's their idea of what we SHOULD think is true, not what actually is. Rather than just believing what the media says, why not look at what the 'opposition' says. What is the government saying? The army? The Iraqi bloggers? The media is the last place I go for news now-a-days. If I want a reporters opinion I'll get it after someone's beaten it out of him. Only way to get truth over opinion when it comes to those %$%^$%&^.
Report the bad because we're responsible for it but don't report the good because we're responsible for it being bad in the first place. On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Dana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > are we talking about better since before or after we shock and awed > them into the dark ages? > > > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 4:58 PM, Michael Dinowitz > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are you going to say that nothing has been done infrastructure wise? > From > > what the media says or does not say (more on the latter), Iraq is in the > > dark ages and nothing is getting better. No electricity, no water, no > food, > > nothing. > > There's reality and there's media reality and only one of those are > true. > > > > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Dana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:255131 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
