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I don't know how to link to TV stories, sorry. However, check out PBs during the last 20 minutes or so this Friday night, same thing with "This Week" on Sunday morning. During the last 20 minutes or so they do a "In Memoriam" segment where they mention, and show clips of noted authors, actors, politicians and others who have passed and then say, "The Pentagon this week released the names of XX soldiers and sailors who were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan". They then show the name, rank, affiliation and hometown in groups of three.
They've both been doing this since the war(s) began. I can't speak for the nightly newscasts because for that I go PBS and then local stations. Local stations always mention, and when I lived in a small town the (50 miles away) stations covered the family, the honoring of the hearse as it passed through town and interviewed family and classmates of the deceased.
golfgod
Well that is true our local news will report deaths as we have bases here in our town and also nearby in GA....
But the 'big three' national news outlets do not seem to care anymore...
most on the left care nothing now about how many are killed as the dead
Stop generalizing, it shows the bankruptcy of your ideas. I've got more than a couple of friends who are active in the anti-war movement who, like me are combat vets. BTW, my wife actually STANDS when the newscasts read the toll of war dead and often rearranged her schedule to stand and honor the passing hearses of soldiers from our area.
I think the people who didnt' care about the dead were Cheney and Rumsfeld. I believe G.W. Bush when he said that as a Christian he worried about sending our soldiers into harm's way and grieved in private and with the families of the killed and wounded. I think he was a good man, who unfortunately was too gullible and incurious to take either question his advisors or take a long view of things.
I've got to get out of this thread, it's bringing me down.
The premise of this thread is A COMPLETE LIE, COMPLETE LIE. A lie so vile has to be named twice.
AFAIK there NEVER was a "nightly/weekly" body count, and for much of the war I pretty regularly watched the 6:00PM news, rotating among the "big 3". However, every Friday night on "Newshour" (formerly "McNeil-Lehrer") on PBS, and every Sunday morning on ABC "This Week" (George Stephanopolous) they have ALWAYS and continue to honor those killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
PBS announces the names with pictures, if they've been provided by families, ABC, just shows name, rank, service affiliation and hometown.
The fact that the OP would start this shows the complete bankruptcy of the right wing. Back when we were losing 100 men and women a month FOX NEWS (a partially owned subsidiary of the Bush White House-or vice verse) probably NEVER ANNOUNCED HOW MANY WERE BEING KILLED. I surmise this because a couple of times in discussion with friends who get all their news from Fox, they insisted that only "a dozen or so per month" Americans were being killed in war zones.
Start an honest thread sometime.
golfgod
Gotta love the selective memory of some, to deny that they ran the count of the dead soldiers EVERY night is a COMPLETE LIE,COMPLETE lie so vile it has to be said twice...
On the all the networks everyday they'd say something to the effect of "5soldiers were killed today bringing the total to xxx killed since the begining of the conflict..." If that ain't a body count then I wonder what is....
this much i know 1 million iraqi people are dead. i know what was done in NYC was awful but in view of the fact that they did not do it and that we know who did, can we just call it even and leave now please?
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