Why isn't the "good news" from Iraq being reported?

a) there isn't very much good news to cover
b) it's too dangerous to go out and find good news
c) a story about 30 people killed in a car bombing is more newsworthy than the opening of a new school
d) the media wants to present the worst possible picture of what's happening in iraq

we know what george, dick, don and karl want us to believe but how about injecting some reality into the discussion...

(LARA LOGAN, CBS NEWS appeared on CNN's RELIABLE SOURCES with Howard Kurtz this morning... She was speaking from Baghdad...)

As a journalist, if an American soldier or an Iraqi person dies that day, you have to make a decision about how you weigh the value of reporting that news over the value of something that may be happening, say, a water plant that's being turned on that brings fresh water to 200 Iraqi people. I mean, you get accused of valuing human life in a certain way depending on how you report it.

And also, as -- I mean, what I would point out is that you can't travel around this country anymore without military protection. You can't travel without armed guards. You're not free to go every time there's a school opening or there's some reconstruction project that's being done.

We don't have the ability to go out and cover those. If they want to see a fair picture of what's happening in Iraq, then you have to first start with the security issue.

When journalists are free to move around this country, then they will be free to report on everything that's going on. But as long as you're a prisoner of the terrible security situation here, then that's going to be reflected in your coverage.

thank goodness there seem to be fewer and fewer people buying the bushco "blame the media" load of crap...

(thanks to atrios...)

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