Reports on reporters, not successes

I've been watching three days of CNNI showing 1)Alquada bigshot dissing Bush for missing him 2) Amanpour claiming we are losing the war in Iraq (does anyone out there know that they have a commercial where she preaches: We report to make a difference...hello...you don't report to make a difference, you report to give information, you EDITORIALIZE to make a difference) and 3) sobbing on Larry King and elsewhere about careless reporters being killed.

I didn't know how to complain, but now I found that someone actually noted the same thing:

The unavoidable consequence of war is this: People are savagely wounded and killed. Soldiers in Iraq watching the coverage on satellite television and reading the news on the Internet are getting the impression that the press has only just discovered this fact.

It's not quite as simple as that, of course. Military personnel often express frustration that the media harps on military casualty reports at the expense of what they consider their successes in Iraq.

However, as it promoted its story on Woodruff and Vogt Monday evening, the local ABC News affiliate in Washington showed a montage of exploding vehicles in Iraq -- footage culled largely from insurgents, who videotape the attacks and post them on Web sites to advertise or magnify their successes.

Tokyo Rose call your office, ABC wants to use your film at 11...