Media Battle In Baghdad
(CBS)
The treatment of the kids may have been indefensible, but their rescue made for a rare good news story out of Iraq. Not much more to say, then, right?
Wait. Nothing is easy when reporting from Iraq.
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June 22, 2007 11:27 AM On Wednesday, Public Eye spotlighted CBS Evening News Chief Foreign Correspondent Lara Logan’s report about US soldiers rescuing two dozen starving special-needs orphans in Baghdad. Logan reported that a US military patrol happened upon a “horrific” scene of 24 children being starved in a Baghdad orphanage, some tied to beds like dogs on a leash.
The treatment of the kids may have been indefensible, but their rescue made for a rare good news story out of Iraq. Not much more to say, then, right?
Wait. Nothing is easy when reporting from Iraq.
The treatment of the kids may have been indefensible, but their rescue made for a rare good news story out of Iraq. Not much more to say, then, right?
Wait. Nothing is easy when reporting from Iraq.
June 19, 2007 11:06 AM
When The News Is Good ....
Which one of these is not like the other?
Sunni-Shiite tensions hit a new level of violence due to the bombing of the Golden Dome Shiite shrine in Samarra.
Mental illness – mostly in the form of post-traumatic stress disorder – is on the rise in soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
US soldiers save 24 starving special needs orphans in Baghdad.
As you can tell from the final example, there is reporting of positive developments from Iraq – though some might say that the media doesn’t bother with them.
Video: As you can tell from the final example, there is reporting of positive developments from Iraq – though some might say that the media doesn’t bother with them.
