The news we don't hear.

[2ndAmendment]

Geraldo Rivera's report on Iraq

from Star-Telegram.com

The buildings that aren't burning in Iraq

By Mark Davis

"They have a saying in the news business," Geraldo Rivera related this week. "Reporters don't report buildings that don't burn."

And with that introduction, he told a TV audience about the story that is being systematically denied to our entire nation: the success story of post-Saddam Iraq.

Are we losing some soldiers each week? Yes. Is there some frustration in the public about electricity and water service? Yes.

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Rivera is no shill for George W. Bush. But Bush, Condi Rice and Colin Powell together could not have been as effective as Geraldo was Thursday night on the Fox News Channel's Hannity and Colmes program.

"When I got to Baghdad, I barely recognized it," he began, comparing his just-completed trip to two others he made during and just after the battle to topple Saddam. "You have over 30,000 Iraqi cops and militiamen already on the job. This is four months after major fighting stopped.

"Can you imagine that kind of gearing up in this country? Law and order is better; archaeological sites are being preserved; factories, schools are being guarded."

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[ylexot]

I think about it this way. If someone in, say...Oklahoma watched the DC nightly news, they would avoid DC like the plague. We (being in the DC area) know that there are places that aren't safe, but the majority of DC is safe. Same thing with Iraq. All we see is the bad. I'm not saying that there is a bias, just a matter of how do you report on "nothing happened today"? So, all you see is when something does happen.