int'l terrorism by the USA can't be condoned regardless of who is cic On Sep 13, 5:55 am, Bruce Majors <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > > ** ** > > Proof of the totally partisan, anti-American bias of the mainstream media.** > ** > > ** ** > > B**** > > ** ** > > http://www.mediaresearch.org/specialreports/2011/redWhiteandPartisan/... > **** > > *Red, White, and Partisan * > > How the Media Furor Over Bush's War on Terror Vanished Under Obama **** > ------------------------------ > > ** ** > > Executive Summary **** > > ** ** > > [image:http://www.mrc.org/Static/uploads/2001-09-11-NBC-Today-240.jpg]**** > > The premeditated murder of thousands of Americans on September 11, 2001 > unified the United States, in grief over the attacks and in resolve to never > let it happen again. Just as Members of Congress stood together as one on > the Capitol steps to sing “God Bless America,” the American major media > united with the people in their collective shock and outrage. > > But that feeling did not last. Within a month, America went to war in > Afghanistan, and the media returned to its traditional pose of being above > “nationalistic fervor.” Instead, the media coverage grew dark and > foreboding, presenting America as a malignant force many Americans didn’t > recognize. > > When Barack Obama was elected, the pessimism faded, and so did the > skepticism. Even Obama’s continuation of certain Bush anti-terror policies > didn’t outrage the media. To review how the broadcast television networks > portrayed the War on Terror in the decade since 9/11, the Media Research > Center has identified major trends that stand out from ten years of media > analysis. The Bush policy was often reviled, and the Obama policy was often > ignored or praised:**** > > **** > > **[image: *] **Under Bush, anchors and reporters painted the War on > Terror as a dark era in American history where our civil liberties were > vanishing. Terrorist suspects were often treated as morally superior to > their U.S. military captors.**** > > **[image: *] **Under Obama, the picture of unjustly detained terror > suspects faded from view, and Guantanamo faded as an international outrage.* > *** > > **[image: *] **Under Bush, the networks eagerly promoted partisan > talking points that cast the administration as villainous or inept in its > handling of the War on Terror – or, even worse, somehow to blame for the > 9/11 attacks themselves.**** > > **[image: *] **Under Obama, the media’s coverage of Obama’s failures > on terrorism (the mass murder at Fort Hood and the near misses above Detroit > and in Times Square) diverted the subject from Obama’s performance to other > controversies (like America’s alleged “Islamophobia”). When Obama’s > performance succeeded – as in his command of the mission to kill Osama bin > Laden – the subject wasn’t changed.**** > > **[image: *] **Under Bush, TV journalists were so averse to > nationalism that they found allusions to an “axis of evil” in the world to > be grotesque, and obsessed over the unpopularity of Bush’s America in Europe > and the Middle East.**** > > **[image: *] **Under Obama, the media simply assumed that a less > nationalistic Obama's outreach to the Muslim world (including his speech in > Cairo) would warm global opinion, and ignored surveys that belied that > assumption. **** > > **[image: *] **Under Bush, the networks defended Bush’s partisan > critics as patriotic dissenters who should not be impugned, even as those > protesters impugned Bush in the vilest terms. **** > > **[image: *] **Under Obama, Republicans were discouraged from > criticizing the President for terror-policy failures and left-wing critics > of Obama’s continuation of Bush policies vanished from the airwaves.**** > > MRC’s conclusion: While journalists like ABC News president David Westin > insisted that the patriotic thing for journalists to do after 9/11 was “to > be independent and objective and present the facts to the American people,” > the networks failed to live up that “we report, you decide” standard**** > > ** ** > > __._,_.___ > Reply to > sender<[email protected]?subject=Re%3A%20How%20the%20Media%20Furor%20Over%20Bush%27s%20War%20on%20Terror%20Vanished%20Under%20Obama%20>| > Reply > to > group<[email protected]?subject=Re%3A%20How%20the%20Media%20Furor%20Over%20Bush%27s%20War%20on%20Terror%20Vanished%20Under%20Obama%20>| > Start > a New > Topic<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/grendelreport/post;_ylc=X3oDMTJmZTlydXR...> > Recent Activity: > > - New > Members<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/grendelreport/members;_ylc=X3oDMTJnZWZw...> > 1 > > Visit Your > Group<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/grendelreport;_ylc=X3oDMTJmbWoxZTBmBF9T...> > MARKETPLACE > A bad score is 598. 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