Why Are Only U.S. Deaths News?

• December 29, 2006

I’ve been seeing headlines like this one a lot lately:

Troop deaths appended to headlines over stories that are only semi-related. It’s almost like the headline writers are counting down to the media orgy that will be the 3,000th American military death in Iraq.
My question is, why aren’t terrorist casualties reported in the same fashion? Have you ever seen a headline reading “Saddam On Trial; 30 Terrorists Killed?” Why are only our deaths given a lot of media attention and not the deaths of our enemies? We are, after all, killing 20 – 30 terrorists for every one of our troops they manage to kill.
Is that not something the American public would be interested in? When our troops engage the enemy and kill a lot of them, wouldn’t Americans like to hear of that military success? Apparently not, because the media deems such things un-newsworthy.
Which is a total joke, if you ask me.

Tags: Media, Politics, War On Terror

http://Array robert108

Aren’t most of them simply Iraqis, mostly Sunnis, rising up against the U.S. backed Shiite government?

No. As a matter of fact, Al Qaeda in Iraq is responsible for most of the killings of both Iraqi civilians and US soldiers, and they are supplied by Iran and Syria. The civilian deaths in Iraq are caused by the terrorists.
http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

Rob…The MSM thinks they know best as to what the American Public need to know. We are all too stupid to sort and figure information such as that on our own. That seems to be the concept of most liberal thinking…
ClearBrained

Rob, you say:

My question is, why aren’t terrorist casualties reported in the same fashion? Have you ever seen a headline reading “Saddam On Trial; 30 Terrorists Killed?” Why are only our deaths given a lot of media attention and not the deaths of our enemies? We are, after all, killing 20 – 30 terrorists for every one of our troops they manage to kill.

Who are you talking about? What terrorists? Who says “terrorists” are killing our troops? Aren’t most of them simply Iraqis, mostly Sunnis, rising up against the U.S. backed Shiite government?
robert108

Woof: The topic here is why we don’t report the dead terrorists, and that question is being asked of the MSM, not the military. Dead Iraqi civilians are the mathematics of success for the terrorists, which should tell you something, if you would only pay attention to it.
WOOFX

Dead Iraqis are the mathematics of failure
to the American public.

“We don’t do body counts” General Tommy Franks.

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