The SCLM coverage

Did anyone else find it interesting that the US media was obsessed yesterday with the attacks on Christian churches in Iraq? Sure, it was a revolting attack but so were the US-led "precision strikes" that have leveled neighborhoods, killing innocent Iraqi women and children. The failed guns-for-weapons program, where the money men failed to show, has fallen off of the radar and we are now back into pounding neighborhoods into submission. I have to assume that this is the media being led by the nose by the Pentagon or the administration to get the Christian wingnuts excited about the war.

The next time you are watching news coverage of Iraq, look closely at what you see on TV. When was the last time you witnessed a news reporter actually reporting out in the field? It's probably been a while because they don't do it anymore. They're mostly limted to churning out bullshit pumped into them via DoD news briefs. US journalists are afraid to venture outside of the Green Zone and European news sources have pretty much pulled out of Iraq so the only reporters operating in the countryside are either embedded within US troops or they are Arab stations which have been heavily demonized by the administration for "bias" which may or may not be the case.

Since the US SCLM is also pandering to the right, check out some of the UK media outlets and see what some of the hot topics are that somehow have been ignored by the US media. Today it is being reported that Tony Blair is now allowing Star Wars to be installed in the UK. This comes right after the story of Blair being pressured by Bush to send elite UK forces to Baghdad to give the US extra manpower for the military offensive being prepared in Iraq. It also has something to do with Bush forcing Blair to taking some of the pressure off of Bush for the 90% problems in Iraq. Bush the bully, at it's best.

I've also noticed that both the AP and MSNBC (possibly others as well) include a photo of Army Reserve Sgt. Larry O. McCook, an African-American, in their stories about the unit in Iraq who refused a mission. For a liberal media, that looks like race baiting to me. There were nineteen men involved and they only show a photo of an African-American. Curious.