Reply #9: Censored compliant media needs to report progress in Iraq

[teryang]

The reporting on the war is already so one sided and subservient to the government and it isn't good enough for von Rumsfeldt.

We do not see the dead soldiers, the dead civilians, the dead women nor the dead children. We do not see the effects of the millions of tons of bombs we are dropping on Iraq. The overwhelming majority of Iraqis want us to leave, something the media almost never mention.

This morning CSPAN had military call ins only to report "progress" in Iraq and criticize the "defeatest media." The fact that no criteria show "progress" in Iraq is irrelevant. Coordinating the resurgent neocon propaganda campaign is uppermost.

The bombing campaign and its unreported casualties not only lacks tactical effectiveness but is strengthening the insurgency. The media no longer report on the number of attacks per day because it is vastly increased.

The major Iraq parties called on the US to set a deadline to leave Iraq.

Hidden in Plane Sight: U.S. Media Dodging Air War in Iraq

By Norman Solomon

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11258.h...

12/09/05 "ICH" -- -- The U.S. government is waging an air war in Iraq. “In recent months, the tempo of American bombing seems to have increased,” Seymour Hersh reported in the Dec. 5 edition of The New Yorker...

...So, according to the LexisNexis media database, how often has the phrase “air war” appeared in The New York Times this year with reference to the current U.S. military effort in Iraq?

As of early December, the answer is: Zero.

And how often has the phrase “air war” appeared in The Washington Post in 2005?

The answer: Zero.

And how often has “air war” been printed in Time, the nation’s largest-circulation news magazine, this year?

Zero.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11162.h...

Where is the Iraq war headed next?

By Seymour M. Hersh


The American air war inside Iraq today is perhaps the most significant—and underreported—aspect of the fight against the insurgency. The military authorities in Baghdad and Washington do not provide the press with a daily accounting of missions that Air Force, Navy, and Marine units fly or of the tonnage they drop, as was routinely done during the Vietnam War. One insight into the scope of the bombing in Iraq was supplied by the Marine Corps during the height of the siege of Falluja in the fall of 2004. “With a massive Marine air and ground offensive under way,” a Marine press release said, “Marine close air support continues to put high-tech steel on target. . . . Flying missions day and night for weeks, the fixed wing aircraft of the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing are ensuring battlefield success on the front line.” Since the beginning of the war, the press release said, the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing alone had dropped more than five hundred thousand tons of ordnance. “This number is likely to be much higher by the end of operations,” Major Mike Sexton said. In the battle for the city, more than seven hundred Americans were killed or wounded; U.S. officials did not release estimates of civilian dead, but press reports at the time told of women and children killed in the bombardments.