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Originally posted by Coramoor
One of my brother's that just got back from Iraq was telling us how the media operate over there.
Everything you see is almost live coverage. Soldiers will be in their barracks watching the news, look out their window and see what is being reported on. The catch is, the media is just making shit up and reporting it like it's the truth.
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Funny... most of the guys that I know say they rely on the news to find out what is going on outside their area. As for everything being almost live coverage... hardly, take a big network like CNN, yes the do live spots with those grainy images, but then they replay them over and over (I have insomnia so I see a lot of repeats), or at least the exciting clips..... as for the media make most of the stuff up.. sorry but that smacks of BS to me... instead they are reporting on what they know or think they know of the situation, and while that doesn't always jive with the soldier's view, guess what, that's because the troops know stuff they don't.
In fact the only complaints that I have gotten was the lack of "positive" coverage - you know when things go right or people do good; but unfortunately bad news is good news in the reporting business.... the other was the lack of coverage of the other 'coalition' troops and their actions, because every little bit of info on the ground is helpful, and maybe they are doing something on a local level that can be used by others.