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March 21, 2006

Iraq Reporting Reflects Ignorance On Part Of Media

Topics: Iraq

Actor and antiwar activist Richard Belzer said he knows more about the war in Iraq than do U.S. servicemen in Iraq because he "reads 20 newspapers a day." But 20 biased, shallow and incomplete accounts don't add up to the truth. - Jack Kelly

Bill Roggio, an Army veteran and Web logger who was embedded with U.S. Marines in Iraq last fall, was a guest Saturday on a segment of the CNN show "On the Story." The topic was news coverage from Iraq, and during the show Roggio said that "the reporting on Operation Swarmer is a microcosm of the sub-par reporting on the Iraq war".

The latest example of what bugs Bill has been the coverage of a U.S.-Iraqi operation which began Thursday with an air assault.

"Operation Swarmer, a joint U.S.-Iraqi offensive around the northern Iraqi city of Samarra went into its fourth day Sunday with very little to verify why it has been described as the largest assault operation since the American-led invasion of Iraq three years ago," wrote UPI correspondent Sana Abdallah.

"Contrary to what many television networks erroneously reported, the operation was by no means the largest use of air power since the start of the war," said Time magazine.

A journalist friend of former paratrooper W. Thomas Smith wanted to know: "Why are we launching a massive bombing campaign in Iraq?"

Of course everyone knows except the news media that "The dimwits (the news media) have confused an air assault (where infantry is moved by helicopter into contested territory to conduct an operation) with an air strike (where fighter-bombers blow up something) or a ground assault." And that's not all. Be sure and read the rest!

Posted by Richard at March 21, 2006 7:50 AM

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