[Sergeant Bob]

Pentagon to launch 24-hour TV channel in Baghadad (http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_460673,00050004.htm)
Press Trust of India
Washington, November 15

In a bid to present a "more comprehensive picture" of the developments in Iraq, the US State Department plans to launch a 24-hour satellite channel from Baghdad "in a week or two" offering exhaustive coverage of its activities there.

The channel mooted by Pentagon "will offer uncut images of government briefings and military ceremonies, and local stations will be notified when an event or interview occurs that is relevant to their geographic area," the Washington Post reported.

The new idea took birth following observation by officials with President George W Bush's administration that national networks have focused unfairly on violence and setbacks in Iraq.

"We want the stations to show not just the shocking picture, but the whole picture. Car bombs are news, but there's a journalistic responsibility to paint a more comprehensive picture," the officials said.

The channel will be launched "in a week or two" amid increasing guerrilla-style attacks on US forces in Iraq and a US plan to accelerate the transfer of sovereignty to a provisional Iraqi governing body.
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Smart move on the Bush administration's part. I'm wondering if it's really a new idea though. I've got a feeling he's had this idea for quite a while and was just waiting for the right time to implement it. Has he just been waiting for the Democrats to dig themselves a deep enough hole so he could come along and throw dirt on them?

[Justin]

Call me a cynic, but would you believe the information shoveled out of some governmental office without swallowing a few thousand grains of salt first?

[c_yeager]

No more than i believe the reactionary information shoveled out by our own media. It will simply provide more BS from a different angle. Combine it ALL together and there may indeed be a grain of truth SOMEWHERE in the mess.

[Sergeant Bob]

Justin you're a cynic!;) Hey, you asked for it.:D
But I think c_yeager's right. At least we'll get to see another side, instead of just the gloom and doom the media has been feeding us. From what our military members here on this forum have said, the overall picture is alot different than what we've seen and the picture the Bush hater's have been painting.
I went to Panama shortly after Just Cause. All the media only talked about was the attacks that took place (although not comparable to Iraq), all the anti American protest, and how the U.S. had destroyed Panama City.
There were no attacks while I was there. The only people protesting were the State University students (never on Friday of Saturday nights, or when it was raining....at the discos ya know). A large part of the destruction was by rioters and looters who used the invasion as a reason to raise he11.
Most of the people were more friendly than you'd find in any city here in the states, and I sure felt alot safer there than I would in Chicago, L.A., or Detroit. The media was Full "O" Crap.
Of course I will take it with a few grains of salt, but it will be nice to get a different perspective.

[Waitone]

We waited far too long !