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I thought you might be interested in the article from the FAIR web site. The following article will be appended to your message: Media Should Follow Up on Civilian Deaths In two separate incidents last week, dozens of Iraqis were killed by what eyewitness survivors claim were U.S. airstrikes. U.S. officials, however, offered a range of denials and evasions about what may have caused the explosions. Despite evidence uncovered by one British newspaper about the second (and more deadly) of the incidents, however, most U.S. media outlets have allowed the story to end with the official denials. On March 28, in an open-air market in the Shuala section of Baghdad, over 60 people were reportedly killed in what seemed to be a missile attack-- the Los Angeles Times (3/29/03), for example, reported matter-of-factly that "a missile slammed into a crowded market area." But as with an earlier explosion on March 26, the New York Times' John F. Burns reported (3/29/03) that "it was impossible to determine the cause," adding that "a Central Command spokesman in Qatar said Friday night that the United States could not tell what caused the bombing on Friday." Burns suggested that these incidents "threaten to become yet another major problem for the Bush administration." The PR angle was also highlighted on the CBS Evening News after the earlier explosion (3/26/03), with anchor Dan Rather noting that "scenes of civilian carnage in Baghdad, however they happened and whoever caused them, today quickly became part of a propaganda war, the very thing U.S. military planners have tried to avoid." (Of course, the extensive preparations the Pentagon made for communicating to the press before the war indicate that it was not hoping to "avoid" a propaganda war-- but to win one.) To read the rest of the article, please click on the link below. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1613 This article was published on Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting's Website (http://www.fair.org).

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