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June 23, 2008

Sectarian Barbarian Carrion: Media Pines For Good Ol' Days

Total US deaths in Iraq --- down.

IED deaths --- down.

TV news coverage --- down.

CBS News no longer stations a single full-time correspondent in Iraq, where some 150,000 United States troops are deployed.

Paul Friedman, a senior vice president at CBS News, said the news division does not get reports from Iraq on television “with enough frequency to justify keeping a very, very large bureau in Baghdad.”

“It’s terrible,” [CBS correspondent] Ms. Logan said in the telephone interview. She called it a financial decision. “We can’t afford to maintain operations in Iraq and Afghanistan at the same time,” she said. “It’s so expensive and the security risks are so great that it’s prohibitive.”

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1 Those quotes from CBS are indescribably vile.

Posted by: doubleplusundead at June 23, 2008 10:59 AM (P2Jhf)

It's hard to say whether Logan is more upset that her stories are getting 86'd by network bigwigs or that there isn't enough gore to report --- it's unclear. She may be doing good stories on the success of the surge for all we know.

In either case, the network execs look like blood-lusting, agenda-driven sensationalists.

Posted by: Cuffy Meigs at June 23, 2008 11:05 AM (uOvAE)

"We blew our news budget on payment research for the Bush National Guard fiasco, and subsequent payout to Rather. Didn't even get our money's worth. Not that we'd cover US military victories anyway."

Fixed that for CBS.

Posted by: Hermit Dave at June 23, 2008 11:09 AM (Tk5HT)

I wake up to a news channel in DC, WTOP. Their news coverage seems to be a collaboration between CBS and the Wash Post. They're the scum that scum wipes off its feet when it goes into its house.

One of the last few mornings (don't ask which, I had to get up at ungodly hours all for the last three days), I heard this as my radio turned on

"So even though attacks have lessened, insurgents can still bomb when they want."
I didn't hear the report that prompted this comment, but knowing the bastiches at that station, I figure it was a story about fewer attacks and I just know they had to "put it in perspective. Just in case anybody thought that fewer attacks was good news or something.

Their traffic reports suck (Virginia? What is this Virginia of which you speak? 95? It ends at the Potomac, right?), their sports suck (lazy, ignorant fools prattling on about things they don't understand) and their news coverage is so slanted and ideological as to be useless for anyone looking for any facts.

I'm changing the damn station when I get home.

Posted by: Veeshir at June 23, 2008 11:19 AM (zXUuJ)

5 Gee, you'd almost think this is an admission that since it's not bleeding, it's not leading. Not that The News panders to such sensationalism or anything.

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