The San Francisco Bay Area in the mornings has five channels that broadcast the news from 7:00 to 9:00 o'clock, and you'd think they'd all carry the president's speech today about a so-called National Strategy for Victory in Iraq.
Well, guess what? Only KPIX, the CBS affiliate, aired the speech as Bush made it in Annapolis. The NBC, ABC and Fox affiliates, along with the independent station KRON, broadcast their regular morning news shows. These four channels referenced the speech in their news crawls at the bottom of the screen.
Could it be the four stations that didn't carry Bush's supposed new strategy for Iraq knew it was, in the words of reporters at Think Progress, a "public relations document" and not worth covering?
From Think Progress: "After two-and-a-half years and 2,110 U.S. fatalities, the Bush administration finally released a 'National Strategy for Victory in Iraq' (NSVI). The problem is, it’s not a new strategy for success in Iraq, it’s a public relations document. The strategy describes what has transpired in Iraq to date as a resounding success and stubbornly refuses to establish any standards for accountability. It dismisses serious problems such as the dramatic increase in bombings as 'metrics that the terrorists and insurgents want the world to use.' Americans understand it’s time for a new course in Iraq. Unfortunately, this document is little more than an extended justification for a President 'determined to stay his course.'"
Is the mainstream media, at least in one major market, no longer willing to slavishly cover Bush when he talks b.s. about our war in Iraq? Are reporters and news editors waking up to Bush's manipulation about his lack of a real strategy to bring the troops home and provide something akin to "victory" in his war?
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