ABC News Sinks to New Low on Iraq Reporting

It seems that ABC News no longer differentiates whether deaths in Iraq are U.S. soldiers, Iraqi citizens or terrorists. ABC News Radio said the following during the top-of-the-hour news update this afternoon: “A new spate of violence in Iraq left over 100 people dead.” There was no further explanation or detail of events.

I looked up the news stories and surely enough, there have been over 100 people killed in Iraq over the past roughly 24 hours. By most print/online news accounts, there were approximately 60-70 Iraqi civilians killed in suicide bombings. I’m guessing that ABC News also included the number of terrorists (or the media term: “insurgents”) who were killed by U.S. and Iraqi forces to get to their 100+ figure.

It seems that ABC’s intent is to mislead people about the number of deaths in Iraq by failing to differentiate “friendly” from “unfriendly” deaths, which is despicable. If there were 10,000 deaths in Iraq but they were all terrorists, I would applaud. Unfortunately, ABC News would leave out the fact that they were terrorists.

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