It appears that our media runs about 3 days behind the rest of the world

[NNN0LHI]

This story came out days ago but our media is just reporting it today. Our media must have to wait and see the way Bush and his minions wanted this reported before mentioning it today for the first time. What else?



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/07/09/wirq09.xml

Two dead soldiers, eight more to go, vow avengers of Iraqi girl's rape

By Akeel Hussein in Mahmoudiyah and Colin Freeman

(Filed: 09/07/2006)

The American soldiers accused of raping an Iraqi girl and then murdering her and her family may have provoked an insurgent revenge plot in which two of their comrades were abducted and beheaded last month, it has been claimed.

Pte Kristian Menchaca, 23, and Pte Thomas Tucker, 25, were snatched from a checkpoint near the town of Yusufiyah on June 16 in what was thought at the time to be random terrorist retaliation for the killing of the al-Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in an American air strike two days earlier. snip

Now, however, residents of the neighbouring town of Mahmoudiyah have told The Sunday Telegraph that their kidnap was carried out to avenge the attack on a local girl Abeer Qassim Hamza, 15, and her family. They claim that insurgents have vowed to kidnap and kill another eight American troops to exact a 10-to-one revenge for the rape and murder of the girl. snip

US army officials have already begun a separate inquiry into possible links between the two cases, although they insist at this stage that it is purely "speculation". However, locals in Mahmoudiyah, a Sunni market town in the heart of the "Triangle of Death" south of Baghdad, say relatives of the dead girl's family with contacts to insurgent groups asked them to take a "blood for blood" revenge.

[Bjornsdotter]

1. It's been this way for a long time

I first noticed it during Watergate, noticed again (big time)in 2002 after coming back from Sweden. Best part about that is it opened my kids eye's to the fact that we don't get the whole story and what we do get is far behind some others.

Cheers

[LeftCoast]

2. Maybe they had to get through that backlog of good news from Iraq first

[Scribe]

3. Why the Telegraph is behind is a valid question. But they're not our media

This story has been reported fairly widely. I've also encountered questions about why the checkpoint from which Menchaca and Tucker were kidnapped was so undermanned.

[dipsydoodle]

7. There was a note somewhere

that they may have been stitched up by being purposely sent to an area where what happened would be inevitable.

[Scribe]

9. I've also read that the initial mention of the rape was in grief

counseling related to the kidnapping and torture/murder of the two Americans. Others in the unit first told officers about the rape plan in those sessions, it was reported.

[dipsydoodle]

12. I thought it was the other way around

That the two americans were killed after the rape etc had already been discovered. I assumed that they had been stitched up to prevent them from mentioning any knowledge they had of the subject.

[Gabi Hayes]

4. more like three years, if they bother at all

[dipsydoodle]

5. I'd figured that ages ago.

Broadly speaking your news isn't new. Best words to describe the quality of your news that comes to mind at short notice are tragic and appalling.

You'd do better searching for news here in the UK using this : http://uk.yahoo.com/

You get different search results than you would through your normal yahoo.com for example.
Click UK only as well to further restrict the search. That will keep you on the UK home sites for the BBC, Guardian, Daily Telegraph, The Independant etc. You can then cross patch into world sections if you want to do so.

It's also worth checking our TV stations for what's on late at night - BBC1, BBC2, BBC3 BBC4 ITV and Channel 4. You'll then know which news docmentaries to look out for.

[KansDem]

6. The Further Adventures of Kent Slate and Shelby Shapely, Ace Reporters

As we look in on our hard-working star reporters, we see Kent is miffed about a report that American corporate media reports about three days behind the rest of the world.



Kent: Hey, Shel, what's this story about our reporting running three days behind the rest of the world.
Shelby: Gosh, I don't know, Kent. It that bad?
Kent: Could be. This means that foreign reporters are scooping us by three days!
Shelby: What should we do, Kent?
Kent: Well, for starters, go and tell the captain to speed up a little. Eventually, we'll catch up with the competition. Perhaps is a few weeks.
Shelby: Oh, Kent! You're so smart!
Kent: Comes with being a professional reporter, Shel. Oh, and on the way back, bring me another Piña Colada!

[Virginia Dare]

8. I figured that the American press...

was under "pressure" from the military not to report it. The way the stories were written, you had to draw the conclusion. Hints were dropped.

[leftchick]

10. when you think how Iraqis knew about the atrocity right after it happened

I would say they are running three months behind.

[RebelOne]

11. This has been reported before today.

I read it on some news sites 2 days ago.