[lbo-talk] re Eyewitness in Tikrit

Luke Weiger lweiger at umich.edu
Tue Jan 6 11:16:12 PST 2004


----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Philion" <philion at hawaii.edu>


> 2) Why would the US media *not* report such news, since it would be in
line
> with their role as supporters of Iraqi 'liberation'? this is the part that
> is simply out of line with the logic of CNN/FOX...
>
> steve

Because the insurgency is considered to be more newsworthy, and maybe appropriately so, since, if the insurgency succeeds, there won't be many pro-American Iraqis in a year or two. News of currently pro-American Iraqis hasn't exactly been entirely neglected, either (e.g. George Packer wrote about a pro-American Iraqi family in part of a sprawling and ambivalent piece on the occupation in the New Yorker).

-- Luke



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