What You Won't See From The MSM

Greyhawk from the Mudville Gazette has posted what most Americans will NOT see reported on the events in Iraq:

So - with the Commanding General in the U.S. this week, did the troops of MNF-I slack off?
Doesn't look like it:

Sunday, 29 April 2007 72 SUSPECTED TERRORISTS DETAINEDSaturday, 28 April 2007 US, Iraqi raid in Mahmudiyah nets Iranian-marked rockets, mortarsSaturday, 28 April 2007 Marines destroy truck bomb near Karmah Saturday, 28 April 2007 17 SUSPECTED TERRORISTS DETAINED IN IRAQSaturday, 28 April 2007 Baqubah: Local’s tips lead to successSaturday, 28 April 2007 Commandos, Baghdad Eagles detain suspected extremists, find caches and IEDsSaturday, 28 April 2007 Marne Forward Newscast – Soldiers work with Iraqi PoliceSaturday, 28 April 2007Iraqi Army-led mission nets large cacheSaturday, 28 April 2007 Operation Chalons emphasizes U.S., ISF coordinationSaturday, 28 April 2007 Weapons cache foundSaturday, 28 April 2007 FOUR SUSPECTED TERRORISTS DETAINED Friday, 27 April 2007 Operation Commando Dive leads to detentions, cache findsFriday, 27 April 2007 COALITION FORCES DETAIN NINEFriday, 27 April 2007 FOUR SUSPECTED SECRET CELL TERRORISTS DETAINEDThursday, 26 April 2007 Four terrorists killed, two suspects woundedThursday, 26 April 2007 TERRORISTS KILLED, VBIED NETWORK DISRUPTEDThursday, 26 April 2007 CCCI Convicts 41, Sentences 4 to death, 3 to life imprisonmentThursday, 26 April 2007 THREE TERRORISTS KILLED DURING OPERATIONS IN SADR CITYWednesday, 25 April 2007 Six suspected terrorists detainedWednesday, 25 April 2007 Al-Qaeda in Iraq security emir killedTuesday, 24 April 2007 10 SUSPECTED TERRORISTS DETAINED, CACHE FOUNDTuesday, 24 April 2007 VBIED detonates near Diyala’s provincial council headquartersTuesday, 24 April 2007 Correction - Fardh Al-Qanoon Update Efforts Against Extremists ContinueTuesday, 24 April 2007 Weapons cache found inside Baghdad mosqueMonday, 23 April 2007 19 TERRORISTS DETAINED IN COALITION RAIDSMonday, 23 April 2007 Troops assist neighborhood with fire damageMonday, 23 April 2007 Coalition Forces see progress in Diyala River ValleySunday, 22 April 2007 ONE TERRORIST KILLED, 19 SUSPECTS CAPTURED, BOMB-MAKING CACHE FOUNDSunday, 22 April 200715 TERRORISTS KILLED, SEVEN SUSPECTED TERRORISTS DETAINEDSunday, 22 April 2007 Clearing operation Nets Five Weapons Caches in Baghdad’s Mansour district

Meanwhile, back in America, hard working newspaper editors were diligently ensuring that virtually none of these stories would appear in their headlines.

As I reported here, violence over all in Baghdad and the Anbar province is down by nearly 50% in the last month. But how can we see these changes when all that the MSM cares to report is the "of it bleeds, it leads"? How do we support this effort when only half the story is reported?

Why is Print News Media Down?

From a recent New York Times article:

Not Boasting, Even Though He Could
By DAVID CARR

Last Wednesday afternoon, Donald E. Graham, the chief executive of the Washington Post Company, arrived in Manhattan for the Credit Suisse media week for analysts and told them, well, not much.

“For those of you who are seeing us for the first time, the shareholder audience and those of you who might become shareholders is who we are talking to,” he said, beginning with a friendly brush-back to Wall Street analysts that has become something of a tradition over the years. “We don’t do quarters; we don’t do forecasts,” he said.

The Washington Post newspaper is hurting, with advertising sales down 11 percent in the third quarter and circulation off 3.3 percent in the six months ended in September. Newsroom layoffs of an unspecified number are in the offing.Mr. Graham said Wednesday that “2006 has been a poor year for every newspaper that I know of,” pointing out later that “during the summer,
things changed drastically.

“Our print advertising revenues in the last four months have been poor, considerably poorer than I would have expected,” he said.If he has any quick fixes, he didn’t share them. Beyond talking about the growth in the company’s Web sites and a cheesy- sounding buyer loyalty program called Postpoints, there was no grand plan. And Mr. Graham plainly said he did not know how it would all end. Katharine Graham assured the newspaper’s journalistic legacy by hiring the best and ferociously backing them. Her son is staring down a far more chronic challenge and solving it not with journalism, but with financial engineering. There won’t be any movies made about that, but if you care about good journalism, it may be just as important.

You have to hand it to them (Media Folk), they sure spin a quality yarn.

While print media is down again for the third straight year, some executives can still paint the picture rosy. While blaming web traffic for a portion of the losses, (which could be argued), these media elites still refuse to consider their content, or lack of it. The fact that 90% of the print media is left leaning and biased against conservative thought never seems to cross their minds.

And now they have this new problem that has yet to been dealt with; their main supplier of the bulk of their content has come into question of the validity of their content. (Eason Jordan revisited)

In short------Associated Press (AP) has been exposed to some serious allegations of creating content for the soul purpose of setting the shape of world views. Links here and here.

As of this post, AP has refused to retract or positively confirm that "Six Sunnis were burned Alive" last month in Iraq, while many in the blogosphere, and finally some in national publications are questioning if the story was not a total fabrication. (AP lied---publications died)

Now the world believes that six sunnis were burned alive with the content provided by a single source (Capt Jamal Hussein) who has yet to have been produced and is not who AP says he is. And 99% of our nations print media published this story to their readership implying that it was the truth and without a doubt.

While the baptism of AP does not seem to be forthcoming, the credibility of a world-wide news source may be deminished right before the elite media's eyes. This may be described as "Rather-gate to the tenth power". And advertisers and stockholders may want to look at diversifying their portfolios.