Networks That Hyped Haditha 'Massacre' Now Ignore Acquittal

jimpeel

jimpeel

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Once again the press proves their bias. When the Haditha "massacre" was fresh they were falling all over themselves to blame the military and accuse them of being "trigger happy".

Now, still one more aquittal (five so far out of eight Marines accused) of those accused of the Haditha "massacre" is being ignored by the same press that chanted the mantra when John Murtha was accusing the Marines of "cold blooded murder".

http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2008/cyb20080606.asp#6

The same network newscasts that hyped the 2005 "alleged massacre" by U.S. soldiers in Haditha are so far ignoring the acquittal on all charges of Lieutenant Andrew Grayson on Thursday. Grayson was accused of attempting to cover up details of the events surrounding a raid that led to the death of 15 Iraqis. However, Grayson's acquittal was skipped by ABC's Good Morning America, CBS's Early Show and NBC's Today show. (CNN's American Morning covered the story only as a news brief.) In contrast, the morning shows seemed much more interested in the subject back when dark allegations were made about the actions of U.S. solders in Haditha. On Memorial Day 2006, then-GMA host Charles Gibson intoned: "America honors its fallen war heroes, but troubling new information about Marine misconduct in Iraq. A new eyewitness on what could be a mass murder of civilians. Was there a cover-up?"

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I'm hoping that you're not surprised by all this.

If it bleeds, it leads.
If it's an apology or a retraction you can find it (maybe) in the 3rd section, before-last page..below the fold.
 
no shit. this by itself doesn't indicate bias toward anything other than sensational bullshit that will generate revenue. "corrections" ain't exciting.
 
2minkey said:
no shit. this by itself doesn't indicate bias toward anything other than sensational bullshit that will generate revenue. "corrections" ain't exciting.
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Oh come on. You know that it's all a communistic, marxist plot to distract us whie they turn us into the Union of Soviet Socialist States of Amerika, don't you????
 
The Canadamerixican Socialist Union, comrade.

*Edit/added: Oh...524 News hits for the clearing of the Marine alone.
 
MrBishop said:
I'm hoping that you're not surprised by all this.

If it bleeds, it leads.
If it's an apology or a retraction you can find it (maybe) in the 3rd section, before-last page..below the fold.
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I post these types of news bias all of the time. We'll see what Spike has to say. :rolleyes:
 
MrBishop said:
The Canadamerixican Socialist Union, comrade.

*Edit/added: Oh...524 News hits for the clearing of the Marine alone.
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You'll definitely get hits for the newspapers as they all post the same story with AP attribution. However, their circulation is down and most people get their news from TV. The one-eyed monster is where the real bias comes out and that is where most Americans spend a good deal of their time staring at the talking heads.
 
that's what my diarrhea this morning sounded like. it would fit right into this thread.

oh no the big bad liberal media is persecutin' again ! boo hoo!

pussies.
 
chcr said:
Oh come on. You know that it's all a communistic, marxist plot to distract us whie they turn us into the Union of Soviet Socialist States of Amerika, don't you????
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:laugh4:

wait, it's working
 
2minkey said:
that's what my diarrhea this morning sounded like. it would fit right into this thread.

oh no the big bad liberal media is persecutin' again ! boo hoo!

pussies.
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The media is interested in only one thing...cold, hard cash.
 
jimpeel said:
You'll definitely get hits for the newspapers as they all post the same story with AP attribution. However, their circulation is down and most people get their news from TV. The one-eyed monster is where the real bias comes out and that is where most Americans spend a good deal of their time staring at the talking heads.
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:shrug: I don't watch TV. Don't buy newspapers either...too slow. The iNews is the way to go for me... and that kind of news comes in 101 different flavours of bias.
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Yes, I'm sure that the media will soon be running breaking news accounts of Jack Murtha's tearful apologies to the Marines and to this country, along with wall-to-wall coverage of his resignation speech. :rolleyes:


There is an obligation to retract the "mistake" of finding those soldiers guilty in the media before they even had their day in court.

It's that simple. :shrug:
 
spike said:
Shooosh, Jim is trying to believe this is press bias. :laugh:
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Do the search and you will find that most of the articles and hits are for tributes, innocentmarine.com, defense funds, articles on the arraignment, court martial, trial, etc. Of those most are not news sources.

You can't just throw a search up and then not interrogate the search result to see how many of the hits are from news sources and how many are from webpages of other sources.

Unless you are willing to call Michelle Malkin a legitimate news source ...

Now that'll be the day.
 
Cerise said:
Yes, I'm sure that the media will soon be running breaking news accounts of Jack Murtha's tearful apologies to the Marines and to this country, along with wall-to-wall coverage of his resignation speech. :rolleyes:
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When was the apology and what was he apologizing for?


There is an obligation to retract the "mistake" of finding those soldiers guilty in the media before they even had their day in court.

It's that simple. :shrug:
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Who found the soldiers guilty before their day in court?
 
jimpeel said:
You can't just throw a search up and then not interrogate the search result to see how many of the hits are from news sources and how many are from webpages of other sources.
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Sorry to break it to you Jim, but there's tons of links to news sources. Loking like at least 1427 articles now. You can't just make crazy claims and then not investigate them at all.

What I'm not finding is an explanation of what happened to the 24 civilains. Maybe you have an angle on bias there?
 
spike said:
Sorry to break it to you Jim, but there's tons of links to news sources. Loking like at least 1427 articles now. You can't just make crazy claims and then not investigate them at all.
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How about listing the search engine, search terms, and results yoiu used so I can do the search and get the same result. Then, let's take the first ten or twenty hits abnd see how many are from legitimate news sources and how many are from patriot sites, veterans sites, commentary sites, opinion pieces, etc.; or are you now going to claim legitimacy for opinion pieces when it suits you?

What I'm not finding is an explanation of what happened to the 24 civilains. Maybe you have an angle on bias there?
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Me neither. That is what the trial was for and it sure wasn't our marines who killed them "in cold blood" like Jack Murtha said they did.
 
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