LA Times Spouts Iraqi Propaganda as News

Bill O'Reilly pointed out this LAT propaganda piece news story on The O'Reilly Factor this evening. Have a look.

'EVERY DAY GETS WORSE AND WORSE'

Along a busy Baghdad street struck by missiles, shocked residents curse the United States and mourn.

By John Daniszewski
Times Staff Writer

March 27, 2003

BAGHDAD -- It began with the bombing of state television and radio, passed into the midday missile strike on a street filled with restaurants, car-repair shops and apartments, and ended with the steady thump, thump, thump of explosions far in the distance.

It was the seventh day of war in Baghdad.

"Every day gets worse and worse," Sahar, a 23-year-old with a birdlike voice, said with a sigh Wednesday. "I can't imagine what will be next week."

Sahar, who did not give her last name, had been assigned by the Information Ministry to guide, translate and keep an eye on foreign journalists. She had just returned from Al Shaab, an outlying district on the north side of Baghdad, where two missiles hit a busy street at 11:30 a.m., killing at least 15 people and injuring 30.

She said she had witnessed the burnt corpses and strewn body parts, the missile craters, the twisted automobiles and the vacant faces of dozens of people who had lost loved ones or were left homeless by the twin blasts. It was, she said, the worst thing she had ever seen.

Got that? There it is, an ALL-CAPS headline: "EVERY DAY GETS WORSE AND WORSE". Really? Did somebody actually say that? Why yes, indeedy. And who is it who actually said that? Why, somebody named Sahar. No last name given. And why does the oh, so intrepid reporter even know this Sahar person? Why, because she "had been assigned by the Information Ministry to guide, translate and keep an eye on foreign journalists".

Got that? An ALL-CAPS headline in the LA Times quotes an agent of the regime of Saddam Hussein.

Let that sink in for a while........

And they wonder why we think they're anti-American.

P.S. This sure provides an... interesting... contrast to the immediately preceding blog, doesn't it?

P.P.S. Thanks to Media Minded for the notice.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 03/27/03 09:30:14 PM
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