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November 30, 2005
This isn’t Disinformation
The head of Fox News Channel’s documentary unit, Brian Gaffney, recently e-mailed me to say that the network will air a one-hour special entitled "Winning Iraq: The Untold Story" on Saturday December 3 at 9 p.m. (EST). It will re-air at midnight. Gaffney writes: "We sent Greg Palkot and a production team all around Iraq for six weeks. They met Iraqis from across the country and came back with a really inspiring hour — one that’s a lot different from what most Americans see each night on the evening news." All of my sources on the ground tell me the same thing: we are winning the war on the ground and losing on the airwaves. The media simply doesn’t cover US and Iraqi military operations, which are almost invariably successful. Have you heard about Operation Namur (Arabic for Tigers), which is taking the fight to terrorists in Ramadi this week? Or Operation Steel Curtain last week? Or the campaign in Tal Afar in September? So far the media only sees fit to report the enemy’s strikes, not those of the allies. Here’s hoping that Fox’s special begins to redress the imbalance.
Posted by Richard Miniter at November 30, 2005 11:57 AM