anitram said:
Well, STING, perhaps those SOLDIERS and their SUPERIORS should have thought about that before committing these atrocities.
Because they are the reason the media has anything to talk about at all. It is not the media's fault that people were tortured, no matter how you spin it. And it is not the media's fault that these photos exist. And it is not the media's fault that the world is enraged and many of your own citizens are appalled and disappointed. All those things are the fault of the people responsible and they are the ones who have put the decent men and women of the military into this precarious position.
Can you name me a single country, group, business, church, military, that has NEVER had cases of abuse like this at any time ever?
How many Coalition troops and civilians are currently working in Iraq? Well over 200,000.
How many troops or civilians were involved in the abuse? This has not been determined yet, but at most it appears to be a few dozen.
The work of 200,000 people vs. what a few dozen people did.
So what does the media report? Do they report on what the vast majority of people are doing in Iraq and what is the real the situation throughout the country or do they narrowly focus on certain area and a few people?
We have our answer. The media spends all their time reporting on the actions of a few dozen instead of the actions of 200,000 people.
I suppose this is not surprising because even before the scandel, the media was not reporting all the great work that are troops were doing. The only way to find out about that is from the troops themselves. The media is concerned about ratings and money in this case and nothing sells better than a scandel.
So once again, the truth of what 200,000 people are doing to help Iraq sinks even further into the background as the media and others decide to focus on a few dozen people and their actions.
Why can't the media offer some balance to its reporting. Why isn't balance and objective reporting the chief priority rather than ratings and money?
The media have had the opportunity to report on thousands of good things in Iraq, but they choose not to. Its unfortunate but true that most people's impressions of Iraq have been formed by reporting from the Sunni Triangle over the past year which is a very small part of Iraq.
It is is the media's fault when they ignore the overwhelming amount of good things the coalition is doing in Iraq to spend most of if not all of their time reporting on the actions of a few dozen people.