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| AP article blames US for Iran airliner shootdown |
| 2020-01-10 |
| This kind of crap makes me so goddamn angry, but what are you going to do? The media is completely biased. They can only see one side - the left side. TORONTO (AP) ‐ The worst had passed, it seemed, and the United States and Iran no longer appeared poised at the edge of war. "All is well!" President Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday night, days after a U.S. drone strike killed Iran’s most powerful general, and Iran, after a barrage of missiles, had signaled it was stepping back from further escalation. But 27 seconds before Trump’s tweet, commercial flight trackers had lost contact with a Ukrainian International Airlines jet that had just taken off from Tehran’s main airport. On board were 176 people, including 138 passengers on their way to Canada and at least 63 Canadian citizens and 11 Ukrainians. The plane, which never made a mayday call, slammed moments later into the ground. Everyone on board died. They were students, newlyweds, doctors and parents. The youngest was a 1-year-old girl, Kurdia Molani, who was flying back home with her parents to the Toronto suburb of Ajax. By late Thursday, Western leaders said that Iran had most likely shot down the jetliner with a surface-to-air missile ‐ probably by accident. The loss of so many lives transformed the U.S.-Iran confrontation, which had seemed to conclude with limited bloodshed. Instead, what had begun with a drone attack on Gen. Qassem Soleimani’s motorcade at the Baghdad airport had suddenly rippled outward until dozens of Iranian-Canadians, dozens of Iranian students studying in Canada, were dead. Naturally the AP leaves out that Solemani was the man responsible for more US deaths in the 2010s than anyone else. And they draw a false chain of causality, just so they can blame Trump. |
| Posted by:Herb McCoy |
| #11 "Journalistic integrity"? What's that? What's the frequency, Kenneth? |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-01-10 11:54 |
| #10 I remember that show vividly and how sanctimonious Wallace was about not warning Americans about the ambush. But the best part was the USMC Colonel’s reaction: “Later, Ogletree noted the “venomous reaction” from George Connell, a Marine Corps colonel, who angrily declared: “I feel utter contempt. Two days later they’re both walking off my hilltop, they’re 200 yards away and they get ambushed. And they’re lying there wounded. And they’re going to expect I’m going to send Marines up there to get them. They’re just journalists, they’re not Americans....And Marines will die, going to get a couple of journalists.” |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2020-01-10 11:35 |
| #9 /\ #8, Are you recalling: " PBS journalism panel presses Mike Wallace, Peter Jennings to agree they would need to sell out American troops to maintain journalistic integrity (1989)"...? |
| Posted by: magpie 2020-01-10 10:42 |
| #8 I remember back I think in the first Gulf war, some well known talking head admitted that if he had knowledge of an enemy ambush on American troops being planned, he'd feel no need to alert the US forces. Things have only gotten worse since then... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-01-10 10:18 |
| #7 Their industry is slowly disappearing; about 1,000 jobs lost each month in TV & print in the US. I can live with that, and they can learn to code. |
| Posted by: Raj 2020-01-10 09:51 |
| #6 If you aim at it and hit it, it's not an accident. Best they can try for is "negligent discharge". Still culpable. |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2020-01-10 07:40 |
| #5 And they wonder why we hate them. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-01-10 06:57 |
| #4 One reason Fred encourages reporting from elsewhere, however biased. So you can read what the locals/furriners are being told. Only slightly worse than our own domestic agitprop |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-01-10 05:54 |
| #3 An expected consequence of foreigners bringing you the news. Foreign news bureaus staffed by Americans are long dead. Lowest dollar salary is the lowest common denominator in an increasingly leftist and third world dominated field. |
| Posted by: Gomez Ominter3435 2020-01-10 03:45 |
| #2 Hey Lex, you should be used to this by now. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB 2020-01-10 03:41 |
| #1 Vile. Disgusting. Criminal. How does this garbage even get published? |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-01-10 00:47 |