March 27, 2006

Blaming the media
wHoward Kurtz gets his clueless ass handed back to him by Laura Logan, chief foreign correspondent for CBS News:

KURTZ: But critics would say, well, no wonder people back home think things are falling apart because we get this steady drumbeat of negativity from the correspondents there.

LOGAN: Well, who says things aren't falling apart in Iraq? I mean, what you didn't see on your screens this week was all the unidentified bodies that have been turning up, all the allegations here of militias that are really controlling the security forces.

What about all the American soldiers that died this week that you didn't see on our screens? I mean, we've reported on reconstruction stories over and over again… I really resent the fact that people say that we're not reflecting the true picture here. That's totally unfair and it's really unfounded.

You don't think that I haven't been to the US military and the State Department and the embassy and asked them over and over again, let's see the good stories, show us some of the good things that are going on? Oh, sorry, we can't take to you that school project, because if you put that on TV, they're going to be attacked, the teachers are going to be killed, the children might be victims of attack. Oh, sorry, we can't show this reconstruction project because then that's going to expose it to sabotage. And the last time we had journalists down here, the plant was attacked. I mean, security dominates every single thing that happens in this country….So how it is that security issues should not then dominate the media coverage coming out of here?

KURTZ: I want to play for you a piece of tape involving Laura Ingraham, the conservative radio talk show how who was on "The Today Show" earlier this week and criticized "The Today Show" for not doing more from Iraq. Let's listen to what she had to say.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) LAURA INGRAHAM, BRAINDEAD TWAT: To do a show from Iraq means to talk to the Iraqi military, to go out with the Iraqi military, to actually have a conversation with the people instead of reporting from hotel balconies about the latest IEDs going off. (END VIDEO CLIP)

KURTZ: What do you make of that comment about reporting from hotel balconies?

LOGAN (paraphrasing): I have two words for that stupid bitch - 'Bob Woodruff.'

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