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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Lane3 who wrote (44313)5/15/2004 8:49:42 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) of 793696
 
It seems to de that the gung-ho Bushies would be better off recognizing and trying to manage the inevitable shift than denying or berating it. And the country at large would be better off, too.


But how? Managing the shift has a great deal with managing the news. Lots of the soft support for the war was predicated on the idea that it was going to be real easy. Now that it hasn't turned out to be real easy, some of the support falls away. You are left trying to make the case that a) it's important to win and b) we are making progress.

It's very hard to make this case when the mainstream media are a) openly scoffing at the idea that it's important to win (have you seen a single story discussing possible fallout of a US loss?) and b) not so subtly rooting for the US to lose, to the point of running every setback on page 1 and every piece of good news in 1 paragraph on A17. And no, I do not think this is an exaggeration. I have been trying hard to gather any information I can about conditions in Iraq, and I am reduced to reading the Iraqi bloggers, for whom conditions seem to be not very secure but pretty normal, because the media don't even care to report very much on the Iraqis, unless they are shooting at US troops.
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