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Monday, April 2, 2007
Will Bloggers Get it Right in Iraq?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The U.S. military later this month will allow a group of bloggers to travel to Iraq and cover the war. Two of those bloggers, Jeff Emanuel and Victoria Coats, write that they hope to present a story of the war that has yet to be told by the mainstream media, which they say is overly negative. “We share the view of this conflict as an historic enterprise with profound ramifications for Americans and Iraqis - and our world,” they write. “We see hard-won progress and noble sacrifice that can and should lead to victory. However, we see that being threatened by an inexplicable willingness among our political leaders to despair and to capitulate - a willingness which is both fed by, and reflected in, our media, which has embraced the promotion of a vicious and escalating cycle of defeatism.”
Are they right? Has the mainstream media been overly negative in its coverage? Will the bloggers get the war right or is this a Pentagon spin attempt?
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