Chris Wallace jumps the gun?
Portfolio.com’s Jeff Bercovici thinks FNC’s Chris Wallace was a tad premature in making a sweeping statement about the MSM and this month’s low death toll for American soldiers…
No, you don’t see that story there…if you go looking for it before the month of October has even ended. See, those casualty figures have a funny way of creeping up on you if you start talking them up prematurely. Today, citing the release of the official monthly death toll — 39, not Wallace’s 34 — both papers noted that it was the lowest such casualty figure since March 2006.
Wallace’s point is spot on. The failure driven “doom and gloom” media have been virtually silent on the news.
The MSM would be reporting a rise in deaths during the month as they have in the past. The media has always been quick and joyful in reporting bad “trends” long before the final assessments are in on any given story.
Those pointing too Wallace’s citing number of U.S. Troops killed being wrong by five is ridiculous.
Comment by 186 — November 2, 2007 @ 1:27 pm
What a pusillanimous complaint by Bercovici. Most of those positive reports are either not reported or buried in pages where no one sees them.
MSM apologists like Bercovici would find anything niggling
to defend their shameless positons to pander to the loony left and radicals. Shame, shame!
Comment by RGL — November 2, 2007 @ 1:37 pm
When the MSM reports good news about Iraq they allway throw in a great big BUT
Comment by Kirk G — November 2, 2007 @ 2:24 pm
of course he jumped the gun. CNN ran a story on it the other day. wallace just fell in the hole moving to fnc.
Comment by ME — November 2, 2007 @ 3:11 pm
NPR did a 15 minute story on it during “All Things Considered” last night that was devoid of a “but” other than a member of the Pentagon noting that the violence was now down at 2004 levels, which they felt was still too high.
Comment by Cory Strode — November 2, 2007 @ 5:03 pm
According to the story in NewsBusters, Wallace appeared on Walberg’s show on Thursday afternoon, which would have been Nov. 1 (almost Nov. 2 in Iraq), so I’m failing to see how he jumped the gun. Do the insurgents have the ability to travel back in time?
Comment by Caufield — November 2, 2007 @ 6:19 pm