Indeed, one would think that the release of Carroll was the only thing that happened today in Iraq. But if you scroll down MSNBC's front page, you'll see a tiny headline saying that "Gunmen ambush, kill eight Iraq oil refinery workers." And buried three paragraphs into that article is a single-paragraph reference to the fact that an American soldier died in Iraq today.
A single paragraph.
FoxNews does something similar. In fact, it's all about the release of Carroll over on Fox. I couldn't find a single reference to the attack on the refinery workers or the death of the American soldier (if such a story is there, then they buried it).
Anyone detect a pattern? It is pretty clear to me that Iraq (including Baghdad) is much more violent and unstable than what many people believe it to be. But, each day the news media find any happy story occurring in the country and scream and shout about it - in part because many journalists fully support what Bush is doing in Iraq and therefore actively downplay all the bad things that are happening there.
In fact, below are a couple pictures of downtown Baghdad I took on one of my recent trips there. As you can see from these photos, the Bush-loving Corporate Media are not giving us the full story.
It makes me sick.
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