Iraq - Media Aiding Terrorists

Jack Kelly reports on how legacy media are aiding the terrorists in Iraq.

It's also interesting that the terrorists turned to the news media to recover lost momentum. Journalists who fell for these hoaxes may merely be idiots, and their silence about the implications of the hoaxes may simply be the by-product of embarrassment. But more to the point, why are major media so quick to disseminate anything that a terrorist group, or purported terrorist group, releases? For the terrorist, it is like being given millions of dollars in free advertising.

He also exposes Eason Jordan's, CNN's top news executive, bias.

The scandalous remarks of Eason Jordan, CNN's top news executive, last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and the failure of the major media to report them suggest the distortions are deliberate.

Mr. Jordan told a panel that the U.S. military had killed a dozen journalists in Iraq, and that they had been deliberately targeted. When challenged, Mr. Jordan could provide no evidence to support the charge, and subsequently lied about having made it, though the record shows he had made a similar charge a few months before, and also earlier had falsely accused the Israeli military of targeting journalists.

Mr. Jordan's slander has created a firestorm in the blogosphere, but has yet to be mentioned in the "mainstream" media.

Gee, I wonder why not.

UPDATE

Melanie Phillips notes how the media play into the hands of Palestinian terrorists as well.

A ten year-old Palestinian child, Nuran Deab, was shot dead on Monday in Rafah, after Palestinians fired shots in the air. The Palestinians arrested a suspect on Tuesday evening. But as HonestReporting.com records, intitial false claims by Palestinians that the child had been shot by Israeli soldiers were promoted as correct by a number of outlets, including the Independent newspaper and the UN (of course):
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