From WSWS

"The kowtowing to American imperialism continues unabated in the postwar period. A case in point is the reaction of NBC to the speech made by one of its own news correspondents, Ashleigh Banfield, at Kansas State University April 24. Banfield blasted the US media coverage of the war for presenting 'a grand and glorious picture' which covering up the real impact of US bombs, missiles and shelling. 'These were horrors that were completely left out of this war,' she said.

"'It wasn't journalism,' Banfield said, adding that the coverage would encourage Americans to support future wars, 'because it looked to them like a courageous and terrific endeavor. You did not see where those bullets landed. You didn't see what happened when the mortars landed. A puff of smoke is not what a mortar looks like when it explodes, believe me.'

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"NBC and MSNBC officials rejected Banfield's criticism as soon as it was made public, and within three days had extracted from her a statement of retraction...

"But MSNBC general manager Erik Sorenson essentially confirmed Banfield's charge that the network deliberately suppressed footage of Iraqi and civilian and military casualties. 'We were reluctant to run graphic images of any casualties, civilian or military,' he told one press interviewer. 'Antiwar activists have complained to MSNBC, "You've made war seem like fun. You cleaned it up." We saw and experienced a lot of the power and horror of these weapons. I didn't need to see the body literally chopped in half.'"

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