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To: c.hinton who wrote (234730)	6/30/2007 3:22:58 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

We were discussing headlines, ch. How the story is presented. Now it's simply the fact of the case that if any US military are accused of wrong-doing, you will see headlines to that effect on NPR and BBC and NYT, not once but many, many times, as Abu Ghraib and Haditha and such cases attest. If however, the US military conducts a major campaign, it won't be the headline. If it is covered at all, it is buried in the middle of the story, not as the lede, as in the example you showed. What was the lead? Al Qaeda car bomb. Or alternatively, the number of US casualties. Where was Arrowhead Ripper? buried in the middle. No headline. I'm sure the vast majority of the country haven't heard of Arrowhead Ripper at all. You need to read whole articles carefully to even find mention of it. The general impression of NPR coverage is that US soldiers sit around in Iraq and get shot while doing nothing much in particular. Then NPR gushes over them as poor injured victims. Al Qaeda has more reason to feel happy about this coverage than the US Military does. The military is seething. Go read any milblogs and you will see.