Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Myopic Journalism

CNN's top war correspondent Christiane Amanpour now says the Iraq war has been a disaster and has created a "black hole." Amanpour made the comments Monday evening on the all-news network.

"The Iraq war has been a disaster, and journalists have paid for it," Amanpour explains to Larry King, a day after ABC NEWS anchor Bob Woodruff was hit injured by a bomb.

"This is not acceptable what's going on there and it's a terrible situation."

I'm sure this is typical of most reporters. I actually heard a reporter say that the injury to Woodruff may turn the tide against the war because this puts a familiar face on the war.

What? A handsome news-reader is tragically injured and now all of the sudden the American people will take notice of what's "really" going on in Iraq. How can these people be so out of touch with the country they live in? Do they ever get out of D.C. and New York?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I have to agree with you there, DF. It bothers me that networks report every hospital Woodruff makes, as if he was doing something harder than the soldiers transporting him.