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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (198240)	10/31/2001 3:53:16 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

From the Media Hall of shame: (do not read unless you have a strong stomach) www.mediaresearch.org ABC’s Dan Harris conceded on Tuesday’s World News Tonight that the Taliban invited him into their territory because of the "rising civilian casualties" which they see as "an enormous public relations boon to them." Harris, who has spent the last two weeks in Pakistan narrating Al-Jazeera video of supposed U.S. atrocities when he was not showing ones he found through victims who crossed the border into Pakistan, was amongst the Western reporters the Taliban brought to the Kandahar area. Shortly after his arrival, he checked in with Peter Jennings via videophone. Jennings inquired: "Why do you think they want you there?" Harris replied: "I would say it’s because of the rising civilian casualties, what they claim is a rising number of civilian casualties. I think they see that this is an enormous public relations boon to them." Nice catch there by Harris, saying it’s "what they claim" after he stated it as a fact himself. The Taliban couldn’t have picked a network more eager to showcase supposed victims of U.S. bombing and willing to relay Taliban propaganda. From the table of contents of recent CyberAlerts, the output of Harris and his colleague David Wright: -- Terrorists killed 16 Christian worshipers at a church in Pakistan on Sunday, but instead of mentioning that ABC focused on highlighting two civilians killed by U.S. bombing. "An old woman cried out to God in pain," David Wright relayed before stressing: "The victims included children as young as four." For more, go to: mrc.org -- ABC’s Jim Wooten looked at how the U.S. is losing the public relations battle in Pakistan because the local press compliantly relays the Taliban’s uncorroborated claims about U.S. atrocities. But that’s just what ABC News itself has been doing for the past few weeks. Wooten dismissed a Taliban claim of 200 killed in a village, an allegation ABC had relayed, complete with video of a bloody pillow, body parts and dead goats. For details: mrc.org -- ABC and NBC gave life to Taliban propaganda by airing video of injured civilians. ABC’s Dan Harris declared: "U.S. attacks on a village near Kandahar killed 93 civilians on Tuesday, including 18 members of one family." Harris prompted a doctor: "How do you feel when you see these kids?" Harris directed him: "Angry at the United States?" For more, go to: mrc.org -- "So far this is a war without any clear-cut victories or defeats," a befuddled David Wright reported from Afghanistan on ABC’s World News Tonight. Wright relayed how Taliban troops say they "are still alive and well-armed and that the bombing isn’t fazing them. ‘We just laugh at these bombs,’ one of the Taliban escorts said." For details, go to: mrc.org -- CBS and ABC aired conflicting reports about civilian deaths caused by U.S. bombing. "In Kabul, they say, only military targets have been hit," CBS’s Jim Axelrod summarized in relaying the view of refugees, one of whom suggested "they say that civilians are killed to stop America’s attacks." ABC’s David Wright, however, highlighted how "the Taliban claim that some 200 civilians lost their lives in the attack on Jalalabad alone." For full quotes: mrc.org -- ABC devoted a story Thursday night to supposed atrocities committed by the U.S. against civilians as ABC’s Bob Woodruff highlighted the claims of two men who had just fled Afghanistan. He reported that "the Taliban believes more than a hundred civilians have died in the bombings." They "believe"? For more: mrc.org -- A night after ABC dedicated a whole story to how U.S. food drops are just "propaganda," World News Tonight acknowledged that the Taliban are confiscating food trucks. But David Wright put the U.S. and Taliban in the same category as he relayed claims the U.S. bombs are killing "innocents" while "UN officials today accused the Taliban of attacking innocents as well." For more: mrc.org -- The U.S. just can’t win. "Are the U.S. food drops on Afghanistan making matters worse? Some relief agencies say yes." So declared Peter Jennings on Tuesday night. ABC and NBC stressed the futility of the effort, how the U.S. bombing, by inhibiting ground transportation, has made matters worse -- and ABC just dismissed the food drop operation as U.S. "propaganda." Go to: mrc.org -- ABC’s Peter Jennings chose on Monday night to highlight how the food and medicine drops into Afghanistan are "not popular with everyone" as one group "described it today as military propaganda designed to justify the bombing." For more, go to: mrc.org