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Media watchdog says liberal media undermined Bush plan
By Chad Groening
AgapePress
January 17, 2007
(AgapePress) -- The Media Research Center says even before President Bush's new Iraq plan was unveiled last week, the liberal news media was busy reporting it wouldn't work and the war was a lost cause.
Rich Noyes is director of research at the Media Research Center. He contends that in the days leading up to the speech, liberal news outlets were involved in a pre-emptive war against the president's plan, which called for an additional 21,500 troops to be sent to Iraq.
"A lot of reporters suggested he hadn't moved public opinion," Noyes recalls. "Well, one big reason for that is [because much of] the news coverage for days before Bush spoke ... was all about how his plan couldn't work -- [about how] the Iraqis couldn't make it work, we couldn't make it work."
The MRC spokesman believes that had a "dispiriting effect" on the public, many of whom he thinks "are concerned that the war doesn't seem to be being won, but they'd like it to be won."
Noyes says the liberal news media has always measured the success of the Iraqi war on the number of Americans who have been killed -- not on the progress being made on liberating the country, moving it toward democracy, or giving the various religious sects in the country a chance to deal with each other peaceably.
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