General Zinni: "Media Is Being Made A Scapegoat" For "Traumatic And Catastrophic" Iraq...
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Tim Russert, IraqFrom the April 2 edition of Meet the Press:
MR. RUSSERT: Do you believe the American media is distorting the news from Iraq, or presenting an accurate picture?
GEN. ZINNI: Well, I think the American media's being made a scapegoat for what's going on out there. At last count, I think something like 80 journalists have been killed in Iraq. It's hard to get outside the green zone and not risk your life, or risk kidnapping, at a minimum, to get the story. And it's hard to blame the media for no good stories when the security situation is such that they can't even go out and get the good stories without risking their lives. And you have to remember that it's hard to dwell on the good things when the bad things are so overwhelmingly traumatic and catastrophic, you know?
So I think that's an unfair blame that's put on the media.I think that there probably are good things at the lower level, but are they balanced out by the bad things that are happening? All the good things happening out there will mean nothing if the unity government doesn't come together.
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DI: Journalists Killed In Iraq
Number of journalists killed in Iraq (the most deadly war for journalists since World War II): 86 List of Journalist Casualities in Iraq
Capsule reports on journalists killed:• for 2006• for 2005• for 2004• for 2003
By Circumstance:• Murder: 34• Crossfire or other acts of war: 33
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Top Iraq war correspondents discuss risking their lives to tell a truth that few want to hear — or believe
BERKELEY – "I have lost all faith in the media," says the National Guardsman narrating "The War Tapes," the first war documentary to be filmed entirely by soldiers. A portion of the as-yet-unreleased film about the Iraq war was screened for a UC Berkeley audience last night (March 13) as part of a forum titled "Iraq: Reports from the Frontlines," introduced by San Francisco Chronicle Editor Phil Bronstein. That soldier's sentiment was the backdrop for the discussion that followed among five influential journalists who have reported extensively on the Iraq war — and judging by occasional bitterness-tinged heckling, more than a few audience members shared the soldier's viewpoint.
Iraq behind the headlines Journalism dean Orville Schell's gripping piece "Baghdad: The Besieged Press," slated to appear April 6 in the New York Review of Books, is available now from Salon.com and TomDispatch.com. In it, Schell visits U.S. reporters holed up in fortified compounds and increasingly cut off from the hideous reality just outside in Baghdad.
The discussion centered on two deeply polarizing questions. Given the extreme danger of the situation in Iraq, are journalists in Iraq even able to cover the real story? And are they getting the story "right"? Responding to moderator Orville Schell, dean of Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism and just back from a trip to Iraq, the four participants offered rather different perspectives on both questions. Meanwhile, two reporters who were not present cast long shadows over the journalistic exchange: the constant deadly threat faced by reporters was symbolized by Jill Carroll, the Christian Science Monitor freelancer kidnapped in Baghdad in January and still missing, while the damage to journalistic reputations and credibility was embodied by controversial former New York Times reporter Judith Miller.
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Tim Russert, IraqFrom the April 2 edition of Meet the Press:
MR. RUSSERT: Do you believe the American media is distorting the news from Iraq, or presenting an accurate picture?
GEN. ZINNI: Well, I think the American media's being made a scapegoat for what's going on out there. At last count, I think something like 80 journalists have been killed in Iraq. It's hard to get outside the green zone and not risk your life, or risk kidnapping, at a minimum, to get the story. And it's hard to blame the media for no good stories when the security situation is such that they can't even go out and get the good stories without risking their lives. And you have to remember that it's hard to dwell on the good things when the bad things are so overwhelmingly traumatic and catastrophic, you know?
So I think that's an unfair blame that's put on the media.I think that there probably are good things at the lower level, but are they balanced out by the bad things that are happening? All the good things happening out there will mean nothing if the unity government doesn't come together.
READ WHOLE STORY
DI: Journalists Killed In Iraq
Number of journalists killed in Iraq (the most deadly war for journalists since World War II): 86 List of Journalist Casualities in Iraq
Capsule reports on journalists killed:• for 2006• for 2005• for 2004• for 2003
By Circumstance:• Murder: 34• Crossfire or other acts of war: 33
Link Here
Top Iraq war correspondents discuss risking their lives to tell a truth that few want to hear — or believe BERKELEY – "I have lost all faith in the media," says the National Guardsman narrating "The War Tapes," the first war documentary to be filmed entirely by soldiers. A portion of the as-yet-unreleased film about the Iraq war was screened for a UC Berkeley audience last night (March 13) as part of a forum titled "Iraq: Reports from the Frontlines," introduced by San Francisco Chronicle Editor Phil Bronstein. That soldier's sentiment was the backdrop for the discussion that followed among five influential journalists who have reported extensively on the Iraq war — and judging by occasional bitterness-tinged heckling, more than a few audience members shared the soldier's viewpoint.
Iraq behind the headlines Journalism dean Orville Schell's gripping piece "Baghdad: The Besieged Press," slated to appear April 6 in the New York Review of Books, is available now from Salon.com and TomDispatch.com. In it, Schell visits U.S. reporters holed up in fortified compounds and increasingly cut off from the hideous reality just outside in Baghdad.
The discussion centered on two deeply polarizing questions. Given the extreme danger of the situation in Iraq, are journalists in Iraq even able to cover the real story? And are they getting the story "right"? Responding to moderator Orville Schell, dean of Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism and just back from a trip to Iraq, the four participants offered rather different perspectives on both questions. Meanwhile, two reporters who were not present cast long shadows over the journalistic exchange: the constant deadly threat faced by reporters was symbolized by Jill Carroll, the Christian Science Monitor freelancer kidnapped in Baghdad in January and still missing, while the damage to journalistic reputations and credibility was embodied by controversial former New York Times reporter Judith Miller.
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