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visit my web site at http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon My ICQ# is 79071904 for a precise list of the powers of the Federal Government linkto: http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon/Enumerated.html ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 12:34:05 -0700 From: Media Research Center IS Staff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MRC Web News - Our Latest Analysis [mrcgoldlogo.gif] Media Research Center America's Media Watchdog Bringing Political Balance and Responsibility to the Media MRC Web News: Our Latest Analysis April 3, 2003 …Daily updates on MRC's latest analysis ________________________________________________________________________________ Today’s CyberAlert: http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030403.asp 1. Rather, Brown and Even Jennings Acknowledge Coalition Success The U.S. forces have even won over Peter Jennings as he led Wednesday's World News Tonight by espousing coalition success and mocking the Hussein regime's claims of victory: “At one point on Iraqi television today a government official read a statement, allegedly from Saddam Hussein, which said 'victory is within our reach.' It doesn't look like it on the battlefield.” Dan Rather provided an upbeat assessment on CBS: “Tonight there is major progress and a stunning battlefield victory to report.” CNN's Aaron Brown decided: “The end game is on.” NBC's Tom Brokaw provided the most dour assessment of where the war stands. 2. ABC Paints Iraqi Support for U.S. as Reluctant and Novel While NBC's Dana Lewis noted how Iraqis “waved American flags” as “people just came out of their homes, gave the thumbs up to U.S. soldiers, and tried to touch them or shake their hands,” ABC treated Iraqi support for U.S. troops as a reluctant and novel event. Peter Jennings painted the U.S. not as good, but as only the lesser of two evils: “In at least one Iraqi city today, at Najaf, when given the choice between irregulars and the Americans, much of the local population seemed to be with the Americans.” 3. On ABC, Richard “Peter Arnett” Engel: Iraqis Enraged at U.S. Richard “Peter Arnett” Engel relayed on Wednesday's World News Tonight how “6,000 Arab and Muslim volunteer suicide bombers” have arrived in Baghdad. Arnett had a “baby milk factory,” Engel has a “maternity hospital.” He asserted: “Iraqis are growing increasingly enraged by the mounting damage to civilian sites -- including this maternity hospital.” Engel went to the streets to gather public opinion: “I asked this man if he thinks the war is about liberating him from Saddam’s brutal regime. 'Liberation?’ he asked me. 'Who asked for America to liberate us?’” Peter Jennings suggested that the Iraqi claim of “almost 700 civilians killed in the country since the U.S. invaded” last month “may be low.” 4. Williams Realizes Bombing of Baghdad Not Like Dresden Brian Williams versus Brian Williams. The day the bombing of Baghdad started, NBC/MSNBC/CNBC's Brain Williams claimed the scene “looks like Dresden, it looks like some of the firebombing of Japanese cities during World War II.” But on Wednesday's NBC Nightly News, Williams stressed the difference with World War II: “The fire bombings of Dresden and Tokyo in World War II were meant to kill civilians and then terrorize survivors. Here we’ve seen the opposite happen.” 5. Bernard Shaw: This War is "Vital to America's Security" A CNN journalist in favor of the war, but he no longer works there. Former CNN reporter and anchor Bernard Shaw told the Philadelphia Inquirer's Gail Shister that he thinks the war on Iraq is "vital to America's security" because Iraq is run by a “despotic” leader of “a rogue state who possesses weapons of mass destruction and can share that technology with terrorist groups out to harm the United States." 6. Pew Shows that All Polls Find Public Backs War Overwhelmingly “Public attitudes toward the war in Iraq have been remarkably consistent through the first two weeks of the conflict,” the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press observed on Wednesday in compiling a table listing several polls. “There is broad support for the war, and Americans are upbeat -- though not overwhelmingly so -- about progress to date.” 7. FNC #1 Cable for War Coverage, But ABC Soars Too in Ratings The Fox News Channel last week beat CNN and MSNBC for allegiance during war coverage and came in second only to TNT during prime time, though number one in homes carrying both TNT and FNC, as cable news channel ratings soared during the first full week of war. ABC's World News Tonight made the greatest gain amongst the broadcast network evening shows. 8. Washington Post's Different Takes on Supreme Court Protests The Washington Post has differing news standards on black education protests at the Supreme Court. On Wednesday, with the Supreme Court having heard on Tuesday two cases about the admissions at the University of Michigan, pro-quota protesters drew large, one-sided stories on the front page of both the Style section and the Metro section, as well as a photo on the front page. But when hundreds of black parents and school children protested lawsuits against the Cleveland school-choice program last year, there were no Style or Metro stories. 9. “Top Ten Things That Will Get You Kicked Out of Iraq” Letterman's “Top Ten Things That Will Get You Kicked Out of Iraq.” See today’s entire CyberAlert at: http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030403.asp ________________________________________________________________________________ Advertisement CNSNews.com War Coverage Stay up to date with the latest news coverage of the War in Iraq by checking CNSNews.com's News This Hour. http://www.cnsnews.com/ThisHour.asp Also, the latest coverage from Kuwait City as reported by CNSNews.com's Executive Editor Scott Hogenson in the War Journal section. http://www.cnsnews.com/SpecialReports/2003/WarJournal.asp ________________________________________________________________________________ MRC's Media War Watch Advertisement MRC's Media War Watch A reporter's duty to be unbiased is greatest when the subject is as serious as war. 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