bountyhunter
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Notice anything about this partial quote from the article?
I noticed the same thing when I read an article on this topic in my local newspaper today: The article is about former Iraqi interim-government officials embezzling money -- lots of money. Yet the "journalists" reporting this news could not resist sticking a few paragraphs about bombings into the middle of the article -- incidents totally and completely unrelated to the topic,
Yeah, so I posted some follow up sources that focus only on the embezzlement part.
In reality, the first article you are bashing does indeed follow a theme: it's what's on the wire from Iraq today that the guy has to report. sad to say, bombings are no longer news. They are just thrown in as "me toos" in another article because they don't justify their own article.
That's what my take on it looks like and I have edited a few articles in my time. This guy just did a "dump" on whatever the "Iraq" stories of the day were and threw it into one article and it was not well done. I don't see any grand conspiracy here.
On most TV news broadcasts Iraq reports of bombings come at least 20 minutes in and never get more than about ten seconds of air time. The embezzle part was a new story angle so he plucked that one out for the article headline. Putting the grabber on the headline is how you get people to read an article.
"Car bomb blows up in Iraq and kills people" ain't gonna do it these days.