Continuing on my little rant from the past article on the Liberal Media, I would like to discuss how the media’s perceptions of the events in Iraq are misleading the American public.Ever since President Bush announced that he was going to hunt down terrorists in Afghanistan, and remove Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq, the media has labeled him as a “hot headed cowboy” while others have even been as bold to compare him to Hitler. Not only are those accusations made about him, but the mindless drones who make up a good part of the American population actually believe it!
The subtle phrases the media uses when reporting on this war is what is most troubling. As recently as this week, a news report on Osama bin Laden referred to him as a “suspected terrorist” as if there is some doubt as to whether he actually is a terrorist. If they had at least watched their own news reports, they would have seen the countless times that bin Laden had issued statements regarding his involvement in terrorist activities.
Then they try to make President Bush look like such a bad person for sending our troops to war when they constantly report the numbers of casualties. I agree that this information is newsworthy, but at least report it in a manner that honors the fallen soldier, not in a way that makes them seem like just another tick mark on the list of casualties that the “President has caused”. Reporting in this manner makes the President look like a genocidal maniac. In reality, however, the President is actually trying to rid Iraq of their own genocidal dictator.
Every time the press reports on Saddam’s mass killings of his own people, they almost seem to justify it by making it seem that he is just trying to be an effective leader. They never report on it with the hostility that they have when they report on something President Bush has done. Like the title of this article says “they’ve got it all wrong”.
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