{"id":4481,"date":"2007-04-29T00:28:16","date_gmt":"2007-04-29T07:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4481"},"modified":"2007-04-29T12:45:26","modified_gmt":"2007-04-29T19:45:26","slug":"balance-on-the-iraq-spending-bill-as-delivered-by-the-liberal-los-angeles-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4481","title":{"rendered":"‘Balance’ on the Iraq Spending Bill, as Delivered by the ‘Liberal’ Los Angeles Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the newspapers often attacked by Bill O’Reilly as an example of the “liberal” media is the Los Angeles Times<\/em>, currently owned by the Rightwing Chicago Tribune<\/i>.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, LA Times<\/i> ran a story by Chris Kraul<\/a> on the reaction of Iraqi citizens to the Iraq War spending bill battle. But no need to click on the link. Here’s the summary of the “fair and balanced” story as kindly provided on the inside page of the paper edition:<\/p>\n

Iraqis uneasy over funding battle<\/b><\/p>\n

With Congress passing spending bills with timelines for U.S. troop withdrawal, some Iraqis fear further chaos if American soldiers leave Iraq. Others hope President Bush, who has threatened a veto, will prevail and the U.S. will stay, if only for its own strategic interests. Page A5<\/b><\/div>\n

So…if the bill is signed into law, some Iraqis fear it will make things worse. While on the other hand<\/em>, some of them hope Bush vetoes it so US troops will stay.<\/p>\n

That would be the “Heads I Win, Tails You Lose” school of journalism, I guess.<\/p>\n

Those quoted in the story were among the “20 Iraqis interviewed Friday in several cities after both houses of Congress passed measures that set timelines for a withdrawal of U.S. troops as a condition of funding for the war effort.”<\/p>\n

Kraul failed to quote any <\/em>Iraqis who are in favor of withdrawal of U.S. troops, despite polls of Iraqis in 2004<\/a>, 2005<\/a> and 2006<\/a> all showing a majority of Iraqis want the U.S. to leave. That last one found “70% of Iraqis favor setting a timeline for the withdrawal of US forces.”<\/p>\n

On the other hand, a story on George Tenet’s new criticism of the Administration for ignoring pre-9\/11 terrorism warnings and failing to plan for postwar Iraq is featured…on Page 18.<\/p>\n

Darn those America\/Bush hating “liberals” at the Los Angeles Times<\/i>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the newspapers often attacked by Bill O’Reilly as an example of the “liberal” media is the Los Angeles Times, currently owned by the Rightwing Chicago Tribune. On Saturday, LA Times ran a story by Chris Kraul on the reaction of Iraqi citizens to the Iraq War spending bill battle. But no need to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,168,188],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq-war","category-los-angeles-times","category-mainstream-media-failure","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4481"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}