Re: Fwd: [grendelreport] How the Media Furor Over Bush's War on Terror Vanished Under Obama

int'l terrorism by the USA can't be condoned regardless of who is cic

On Sep 13, 5:55 am, Bruce Majors <majors.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> http://www.mediaresearch.org/specialreports/2011/redWhiteandPartisan/...
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> How the Media Furor Over Bush's War on Terror Vanished Under Obama ****
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> [image:http://www.mrc.org/Static/uploads/2001-09-11-NBC-Today-240.jpg]****
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> The premeditated murder of thousands of Americans on September 11, 2001
> unified the United States, in grief over the attacks and in resolve to never
> let it happen again. Just as Members of Congress stood together as one on
> the Capitol steps to sing "God Bless America," the American major media
> united with the people in their collective shock and outrage.
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> But that feeling did not last. Within a month, America went to war in
> Afghanistan, and the media returned to its traditional pose of being above
> "nationalistic fervor." Instead, the media coverage grew dark and
> foreboding, presenting America as a malignant force many Americans didn't
> recognize.
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> When Barack Obama was elected, the pessimism faded, and so did the
> skepticism. Even Obama's continuation of certain Bush anti-terror policies
> didn't outrage the media. To review how the broadcast television networks
> portrayed the War on Terror in the decade since 9/11, the Media Research
> Center has identified major trends that stand out from ten years of media
> analysis. The Bush policy was often reviled, and the Obama policy was often
> ignored or praised:****
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> **[image: *]       **Under Bush, anchors and reporters painted the War on
> Terror as a dark era in American history where our civil liberties were
> vanishing. Terrorist suspects were often treated as morally superior to
> their U.S. military captors.****
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> **[image: *]       **Under Obama, the picture of unjustly detained terror
> suspects faded from view, and Guantanamo faded as an international outrage.*
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> **[image: *]       **Under Bush, the networks eagerly promoted partisan
> talking points that cast the  administration as villainous or inept in its
> handling of the War on Terror – or, even worse, somehow to blame for the
> 9/11 attacks themselves.****
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> **[image: *]       **Under Obama, the media's coverage of Obama's failures
> on terrorism (the mass murder at Fort Hood and the near misses above Detroit
> and in Times Square) diverted the subject from Obama's performance  to other
> controversies (like America's alleged "Islamophobia"). When Obama's
> performance succeeded – as in his command of the mission to kill Osama bin
> Laden – the subject wasn't changed.****
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> **[image: *]       **Under Bush, TV journalists were so averse to
> nationalism that they found allusions to an "axis of evil" in the world to
> be grotesque, and obsessed over the unpopularity of Bush's America in Europe
> and the Middle East.****
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> **[image: *]       **Under Obama, the media simply assumed that a less
> nationalistic Obama's outreach to the Muslim world (including his speech in
> Cairo) would warm global opinion, and ignored surveys that belied that
> assumption. ****
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> **[image: *]       **Under Bush, the networks defended Bush's partisan
> critics as patriotic dissenters who should not be impugned, even as those
> protesters impugned Bush in the vilest terms. ****
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> **[image: *]       **Under Obama, Republicans were discouraged from
> criticizing the President for terror-policy failures and left-wing critics
> of Obama's continuation of Bush policies vanished from the airwaves.****
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> MRC's conclusion: While journalists like ABC News president David Westin
> insisted that the patriotic thing for journalists to do after 9/11 was "to
> be independent and objective and present the facts to the American people,"
> the networks failed to live up that "we report, you decide" standard****
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