Media IGNORING the blast in Mosul. It has started.

[MikeG]

[brainshrub]

1. Explosions happen all the time.

"It" has been underway for some time now.

[MikeG]

3. 22 now dead. This is big news.

[Englander]

4. It's on CNN, & Fuck Knows..(Fox News)....

n/t

[MikeG]

5. It happened 5 hours ago.

[Not_Giving_Up]

6. Cnn.com has a little on it, then goes on to what Blair said,

what happened yesterday, etc. It says no other information is available. I don't think they're ignoring it, I think they aren't being allowed near the story.

[Not_Giving_Up]

2. Faux News has it on their web site n/t

[Padraig18]

7. WLS-AM isn't ignoring it

It's the 50,000-watt ABC affiliate in Chicago, and they've talked about nothing else since it was first reported.

[MikeG]

9. Its being ignored here in Pittsburgh.

[mdhunter]

8. at 9:45 it's the top story on every news outlet's website

[stray cat]

10. Watched it on CNN, Fox and NBC

Alot of detail and somewhat pessimistic military consultants

[Cheswick2.0]

11. I do not have cable news

Can some one tell me what happened. 22 Americans dead, Iraqis, Children? Where did the bomb drop?

[nostamj]

12. they hit a dining hall at a US base near Mosul

22 reported dead, no breakdown but includes US soldier, Iraqis and civilians. 50+ injured.

on the CNN home page now

[Cheswick2.0]

14. thank I am going to go to CNN page and look

This is terrible. I have a young friend over there but I don't think he is near Mosul. I think he is still in Baghdad.

[janx]

17. It's a bad one, Ches. Rockets and mortars.

Check LBN for better links. Check BBC.

[wpbpete78]

13. Very Quiet

They are not saying how many US Soldiers are amung the dead.Considering it was on a US base and in a halliburton dining facility I would think it's likely the majority are US troops. Bad press for rummy and bush.

[jbane]

15. Quick, run the B-roll of Scott Peterson, Jacko, Paris Hilton. Anything but

more bad news from Vietraq. The election looks like it's going to be REAL secure!

[itzamirakul]

16. Sure! They ought to be able to protect

all ten people who show up to vote!

[adigal]

19. Now we have the lady who cut the baby out

to distract us from that pesky war. She was on all the news last night, all the time.

[babylonsister]

18. At least 22 dead, 50+ injured,

but we're about to have baby-carved-from-mom/Robert Blake/Michael Jackson ad nauseum. What in God's name is wrong with this picture? Mind boggling...

[mcscajun]

20. It was the Top Story on the NY Times' website when I woke up this AM

So I don't see any ignoring going on...

[msongs]

21. CBS radio news is doing live updates every 30 minutes here in

the los angeles area, KNX 1070 news radio.

BTW we have TWO all news stations and BOTH are owned by CBS. How's that for market penetration and violation of the public airwaves?

Msongs

Seasons Greeting from the white house
www.msongs.com/bush-xmas.htm

[nostamj]

22. update: 13 US soldiers among the dead

from an embedded reporter for MSNBC.

[Skidmore]

23. I don't think they're ignoring it. They do seem to be trying to

soften the news though. I think this was much worse than is being reported currently. Time will tell.

[Sparkle]

24. BTW, Isn't John Kerry supposed to be in Iraq this week?

[Ms_Mary]

25. I thought it was in January.

[quinnox]

26. Yep

I looked at Fox and they were on the woman - baby story, MSNBC was doing some story on the Celebrex drug, only CNN was covering it. And they were quoting some military officer there who was saying the usual stuff - we must compete the mission, our resolve is strong, etc.

Can't have bad press for the glorious war effort in Iraq led by his supreme majesty, Bush.

After four more years of this Americans are gonna be sick of it, no matter how much the media tries to downplay it.

[ip568]

27. Huh?

This has been the headline all day long.

"Ignoring"?