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

To: JakeStraw who wrote (477463)	10/17/2003 2:45:46 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Funny... I thought that most TV 'news' on the airwaves these days was mindless insincere pap, and infotainment, and sugary 'weather girls'.... Guess people see different things.

To: JakeStraw who wrote (477463)	10/17/2003 2:56:52 PM
From: Kevin Rose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Here is a look at 'good' and 'bad' news. Ignoring progress is wrong, but trying to mask problems with 'feel good' stories is damaging. Bush's statement that businesses are sprouting up all over Iraq, and then the story of the kids selling sodas on the street, is telling, IMHO. Go to Mexico sometime; that country is also full of 'entrepreneurs', which is a happy name for people who are desperate to scratch out a living. story.news.yahoo.com A check showed, however, that television news shows and U.S. papers from coast to coast — including the senators' own hometown Washington Post — did report the reopening of Iraq's schools. Vivid color pictures of Otwell's arriving fire trucks, meanwhile, had been sent nationwide by a U.S. newsphoto network. Beyond that, even such "positive" stories mask "negative" sides unseen by senators on tours closely guided by American occupation authorities. The schools, for example, need rehabilitation in large part because of the chaotic looting touched off by the U.S. military's entry into Baghdad in April. And many schools have not been rehabilitated, particularly in poorer neighborhoods and the south. In Iraq today, the bad news is unavoidable. After chief U.S. administrator L. Paul Bremer delivered a litany of occupation accomplishments last week, a glance at Baghdad newspaper headlines showed there was a long way to go: "Ten killed in police station bombing," "Diplomat assassinated," "Audio shop bombed," "Mortar shells found behind mosque." The good and the bad met on a bus this week where Commerce Secretary Evans briefly bade farewell to reporters. "You know," he told them, "the impression people get back home is very different from what's going on on the ground." His own presence showed that Iraq is safe, Evans said. But just moments before, U.S. soldiers had delivered the bad news: They'd found a roadside bomb on the route. The bus would be diverted.