COWed news networks not showing Baghdad market dead

[Tim May]

I'm scanning all four COWed networks--CNN, Fox, MSNBC, CNBC--for images 
from the downtown Baghdad market and housing area strike. Supposedly Al 
Jazeera is showing the images of dismembered children, frantic searches 
under rubble, body parts blown against walls. Estimates are of 50 dead, 
though this may change.

But are the Coalition networks showing any of this? No. At least not 
after having had plenty of time to either steal the Al Jazeera and 
other feeds, or make the usual reciprocal arrangements. Al Arabia out 
of Dubai and Al Jazeera out of Qatar are showing the images. Fox News 
("Fair AND Balanced!") says the images are "harrowing" (this from a 
British reporter, as the word "harrowing" is far too harrowing for 
Americans to understand) and Fox says they do not plan to show the 
images.

Instead, we get pictures of Tomahawk launches and the usual rhetoric.

"Our glorious forces of liberation continued their march to liberate 
the den of the evil doers and the despot Soddom. Our noble embedded 
reporters say our forces of liberation are repelling illegal attacks by 
illegal combatants who are illegally defending their country against 
our Coalition of the Willing.

"Coalition of the Willing forces have fire-bombed the city of Dresden, 
deep inside the Axis of Evil nation of Germany, for its hosting of the 
illegal information service Al Jazeera Web mirrors. General Tommy 
Franks pointed out that we have to incinerate the city to save the 
city, that we have met the enemy and he is us, and that there's light 
at the end of the tunnel."



--Tim May
""Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who 
approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but 
downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined." 
--Patrick Henry