Media Coverage of the War ???

A journalist needs to be objective, but in America, not right now. Especially CNN almost seems like a state broadcaster at the moment.

[..] That's what I find most conspicuously missing in the media these days. Images of little children who crawl away in a corner in mortified fear, who try to kick and hit their parents, hysterically, because they're all confused [..]. We don't see that kind of images. Not on CNN but neither at Al-Jazeera or other Arab channels. Because they keep to the Arabic taboo on showing vulnerability and sadness, and report only about the "heroic resolve of the Iraqi people".

The graphic departments of the Western media meanwhile excell in making maps and representations that transform the region into a kind of Risk board. Little plane here, little boat there. And a yellow/red star represents the blast. For minutes we see through computer animations how the newest type of Stealth-bomber can duck the radar. Look how smart we are, those films seem to say. We can now make a rocket that after flying 400 miles can find the targeted toilet window without fail, fly through it and inside to the left up the stairs, and then boom.

But then show what that 'boom' is like, for example with the clusterbombs and 'daisy cutters'. The latter create an air pressure blast that makes people die without you seeing anything visible about their appearance - except for the gush of blood suddenly coming from their ears. Show how American snipers have such good guns and binoculars that they can shoot dead Iraqi soldiers without them ever knowing any American had been nearby [..]

This is what I learned, at least, in Gaza. The term 'clean war' really belongs to the category of 'pregnant virgin' and 'democratic dictator'.

AMSTERDAM - The American and British casualties are counted when they fall - but about the number of deaths on the Iraqi side one can only guess. Where on the American/British side the counter is now at 29, on the Iraqi side it must run into the hundreds.

An American reporter describes how an infantery division he is travelling with, near Najaf encounters a [kolonne] of thirty Iraqi vehicles. Low-flying A-10 Thunderbolts fire one by one at the vehicles. After that B-52 bombers arrive, assailing the Iraqi infantery.

Shortly after the reporter walks through the black, still smouldering wreckages, and past the many Iraqi bodies scattered over the road. He doesn't, however, make note of the exact number of casulaties. He does quote an American commander, who concludes that "this wasn't even a fair fight. When you play football at home, 3-2 is a good score, but here it's 119-0".

TV-images show how in Umm Kasr British troops fire direct hits at dozens of Guardists. [..] Nowhere it is mentioned how many Iraqi soldiers died in that.

In Basra the thousands of soldiers and guardists in the city were shelled with bombs. The only consequence known of that, reached the outside world via the satellite station Al-Jazeera. The shocking images of the little head, split open, of a 12-year old Iraqi child were accompanied by the statement of the Iraqi minister of Information Al-Sahaf that American clusterbombs had killed 77 civilians, and had injured 366.

The same minister yesterday stated that in the last 24 hours 62 Iraqis had been killed, and 400 injured. Those figures need to be taken with a grain of salt, because the regime, for propaganda reasons, only mentions the civilian casualties.

On the other side the journalists who are 'embedded' in the American or British troops - who thus pull up with them and are informed by them - also give little information about Iraqi casualties. They don't seem to get the chance to count them or report about them. Because the story does not go down well in the Arab world [..]

What has happened to our global community
desiring world peace?
Wasn't the UN created for the solving
(albeit a lengthy process) of such issues?

and then believing whatever they
hear to be TRUTH, when all slightly educated
individuals know better!!