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To: Lane3 who wrote (20151)	12/16/2003 5:16:39 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 793591

Reuters Frets About Horrors of “Life Under U.S. Occupation” Does Peter Jennings follow Reuters in coming up with a negative/European elite spin or is it the other way around? It’s often hard to tell. But on Sunday and Monday it looks like Reuters followed Jennings. During ABC’s Sunday night prime time special on the capture of Saddam Hussein, Jennings declared that “there’s not a good deal for Iraqis to be happy about at the moment. Life is still very chaotic, beset by violence in many cases, huge shortages. In some respects, Iraqis keep telling us life is not as stable for them as it was when Saddam Hussein was in power.” The next morning, Reuters correspondent Joseph Logan opened a dispatch from Baghdad: “Joy at the capture of Saddam Hussein gave way to resentment toward Washington Monday as Iraqis confronted afresh the bloodshed, shortages and soaring prices of life under U.S. occupation.” Logan went on to quote an Iraqi building contractor who charged: “The only difference is that Saddam would kill you in private, where the Americans will kill you in public." FNC’s Brit Hume on Monday night highlighted the Jennings quote in his “Grapevine” segment with the on-screen text of Jennings’ words crediting the MRC: “As quoted by Media Research Center, Dec. 15.” For the matching CyberAlert item: www.mediaresearch.org Hume introduced the Jennings quote by noting how “the reaction to Saddam's capture was mostly jubilant as reported by the media, but not all of it.” Hume’s second example was the Reuters story, which was featured by James Taranto in his “Best of the Web” column: www.OpinionJournal.com For the Reuters article, dated 5:03am ET on December 15, “Saddam Arrest Cheer Fades Into Iraqi Ire at U.S.,” see: story.news.yahoo.com mediaresearch.org