Lexis Nexis Reveals Bias - Page 2

SixStringHero · 06-06-06, 08:53 PM

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Originally Posted by mpg

Even though I'm a conservative Republican, I have to admit that putting that story on the back page is NOT an example of liberal media bias, but there ARE zillions of legitimate examples of liberal media bias.

Your profile clearly states that you are a Libertarian. Why the change?

aquapub · 06-07-06, 09:04 AM

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Originally Posted by massive_attack

this isn't the first time mass graves have been found, that reduces the outrage factor. plus even before the first mass graves were found we knew they existed.

It's not about outrage. It's about telling the other side of the story. The facts (like this one) that validate our many reasons for going into Iraq are constantly buried in the back pages of the papers.

aquapub · 06-07-06, 09:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Iriemon

The fact that 38 bodies were found in a mass grave attributable to Saddam's regime kind of pales in significance to the fact that this kind of thing is going on in Iraq today on a daily basis, at least in terms of being newsworthy.

Not if it continues to confirm why Saddam had to be removed.

aquapub · 06-07-06, 09:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Hoot

I don't get it? I thought you right wingers would be happy to find bad news about Iraq on the back pages?

If this item was on the front page, you'd be screaming liberal news bias.

This isn't enough to make us scream. 266 stories on it while other stories (the ones liberals don't want to acknowledge-like the Canadian story) are buried...THAT is what makes us scream liberal media bias-because it is.

aquapub · 06-07-06, 09:17 AM

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Originally Posted by SouthernDemocrat

1) Which is pretty much a typical day in Iraq. What a wonderful result that Bush's little social experiment has created. A nice little terrorist training ground for the next generation of radical islamists.

2) If we fail in Iraq, it will be a failure of Republican Policies. Things going bad there right now are a failure of Republican policies. You are trying bad news on the messenger, instead of the people responsible for the decisions that resulted in those events.

1) As opposed to doing things the Democrat way? Where we appease North Korea, let Al Queda attack us with impunity for nearly a decade, and tie the hands of the CIA and FBI so that nothing can be done about foreign threats? Yeah, you're right. Rocking the boat by actually DOING SOMETHING about terrorism is a bad idea. Things were just peachy before that.

2) There is a sustained effort by the media to put stories on the front page when they undermine the war, and to bury them when they validate it. This undeniably undermines the war. It is LIBERALS who won't take responsibility for rallying our enemies on a daily basis with this crap. And Bush HAS admitted that miscalculations were made. He HAS taken responsibility. Your smear tactic here is an utterly baseless lie.

aquapub · 06-07-06, 09:21 AM

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Originally Posted by mpg

Even though I'm a conservative Republican, I have to admit that putting that story on the back page is NOT an example of liberal media bias, but there ARE zillions of legitimate examples of liberal media bias.

Sure, how could it be an example of liberal bias to consistently put all the stories that validate the war on the back page-where far fewer people will see it-and all the unsubstantiated stories that trash this country on the front page?

By this logic, it must also be a coincidence that papers always put their corrections on the back page too. It couldn't be that they don't want people to see their mistakes. Give me a break.

aquapub · 06-07-06, 09:29 AM

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Originally Posted by aquapub

I just got curious and did a search on Lexis Nexis for news stories in print during the last week on:

1) the Marines allegedly shooting people in Haditha. I used the words, "Haditha," "Marines," and "kill."-Result: 266 articles.

2) mass graves unearthed in Iraq (they were discovered 3 weeks ago). I used the words, "Iraq," "Saddam," and "mass graves."-Result: 5 articles.

3) another terror cell being broken up, this time in Canada that was targeting Canada's capital with ammonium nitrate bombs (and possibly ours). I used the words, "terror," "arrest," and "Canada."-Result: 87 articles, more than 95% of which were from Australian, British, and Canadian papers...our print media largely ignored it.

Maybe the Left's continuous accusation that Bush is governing through fear is based on the fact that our media is too consumed with trashing America to inform them that there REALLY IS a threat.

FURTHERMORE, CHECK THIS OUT...

While running 266 front-page stories in a single week on the unsubstantiated Haditha accusation, and while running nearly NOTHING on two compelling, important stories liberals DON'T want to hear about, the media buried the fact that the military was just cleared on one of their PRIOR smear jobs.

Here is an excerpt from the Washington Post:

"...U.S. commanders used appropriate force in taking down a safe house in Iraq during a March 15 military raid that led to the deaths of as many as a dozen civilians, according to the results of an investigation announced in Baghdad yesterday.

Officials moved quickly to tamp down allegations of a civilian massacre in the town of Ishaqi, near Balad, after a video broadcast by the BBC this week appeared to show that several civilians, including children, were shot to death in the nighttime raid...

Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV, spokesman for Multi-National Force-Iraq, issued a statement last night saying that investigators had found no wrongdoing in the Ishaqi raid and that the ground force commander "properly followed the rules of engagement as he necessarily escalated the use of force until the threat was eliminated." Caldwell said troops captured a Kuwaiti-born al-Qaeda cell leader -- Ahmad Abdallah Muhammad Na'is al-Utaybi -- and killed an Iraqi bombmaker and recruiter during the coordinated raid.

The troops took direct fire from the building upon their arrival, he said. They responded first with small arms and then by calling in helicopters and, later, close air-support, essentially destroying the structure, Caldwell said in the statement. Troops then entered the building and found the Iraqi bombmaker's body, along with three dead "noncombatants" and an estimated nine "collateral deaths."

"Allegations that the troops executed a family living in this safe house, then hid the alleged crimes by directing an air strike, are absolutely false," Caldwell said..."

Washington Post. 6-3-06. "Military Cleared in Raid on Iraq House." PAGE 8.

Stinger · 06-07-06, 10:03 AM

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Originally Posted by SouthernDemocrat

Which is pretty much a typical day in Iraq.
What a wonderful result that Bush's little social experiment has created. A nice little terrorist training ground for the next generation of radical islamists.

Created? It existed before. When will you learn it is freedom and democracy the terrorist are fighting not us.

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I mean do you not get it. If it were on the front page, it would make the war effort look worse, not better.

So you believe the horrors our enemies perpetrate should be hidden and the very very few that our forces might have perpetrated get front page coverage? As I said the left wants us to lose so they can use it against Bush to regain power.

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You "Personal Responsibility" guys never take responsibility for anything. The Democrats control nothing right now. We have a Republican government with Republican Policies, and we are prosecuting the war in Iraq with Republican Policies. If we fail in Iraq, it will be a failure of Republican Policies. Things going bad there right now are a failure of Republican policies.

The Democrats are fully engaged in thier policy, denigrate what we are doing, giver the terrorist reason to continue, hope we lose.

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You are trying bad news on the messenger, instead of the people responsible for the decisions that resulted in those events.

And the more of them the happier the left is, the more they can encourage our enemies to continue the better, the sooner they can bring about our lose in Iraq the better.

Kandahar · 06-07-06, 04:08 PM

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Originally Posted by aquapub

This isn't enough to make us scream. 266 stories on it while other stories (the ones liberals don't want to acknowledge-like the Canadian story) are buried...THAT is what makes us scream liberal media bias-because it is.

Why wouldn't liberals want to acknowledge the Canadian story? It seems pretty straightforward and nonpartisan to me.

aquapub · 06-07-06, 04:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Kandahar

Why wouldn't liberals want to acknowledge the Canadian story? It seems pretty straightforward and nonpartisan to me.

Because it verifies that there IS in fact a looming terror threat, this time just across the least guarded border on Earth. Liberals, especially the ones who control the media, have actively sought to undermine this reality and offered the counterpoint that Bush is just trying to rule through fear.

Ever heard of the Brooklyn Bridge bombing? The Patriot Act prevented it. It prevented it by allowing the CIA, FBI, and local police to communicate about terror threats-which was formerly illegal due to a liberal policy handed down by Bill Clinton. How many stories do you think the media ran on THAT? I know the answer: just enough so that those of us who know to question the media's assertions can tell what's going on in this country beyond the media's anti-U.S. reporting.

This isn't the only terrorist attack that has been prevented. God knows how many there have been that are still not being reported due to being classified.