Tuesday, December 21, 2004
Mosul Chow Hall Attack: News OR "Just Another Day in Iraq?"
As I type this the attack on an US Military chow hall is history BUT the web is alive with how the cable news outlets covered the attack. TV Newser says "During the 9am hour, CNN went wall-to-wall with coverage of the Mosul attacks, while FNC and MSNBC seemed to ignore it. CNN's coverage, anchored by Bill Hemmer and Carol Costello, welcomed international viewers around 9:30am. Fox mentioned the attack, then reported on a study about shopping mall parking. Meanwhile, MSNBC was interviewing the founder of the Committee to Save Merry Christmas."
Wonkette says: "On the day of the worst violence in Iraq in months, with American service personnel killed in their own dining hall, it's nice to see that Fox News is keeping things in perspective. Rather than go wall-to-wall, as CNN has done, they're delivering the real hard news: "Shopping and politics may have more in common than you think."
I guess the attack in Mosul wasn't the type of thing FNC wanted to report just days before Christmas, BUT good or bad, it's news. And for the past few hours FNC has done a good job of dodging covering the attack, instead they are focusing on how attacks like this can be avoided. Is that something folks at home want to know. Something tells me kin-folk of troops in Iraq want to know EXACTLY what chow hall was hit and if their loved one is injured.
# posted by ATN @ 12:21 PM 
