Tim Blair

So far the US media is doing a good job of ignoring this story. Only Fox has a report on its website. I guess it isn't interesting to them since their was no bloodshed. Score another for the blogs.

I guess it isn't interesting to them since their was no bloodshed.

Naah. They mostly ignored it because it wasn't anti-American.

Darned if I can find the FoxNews Website report. Can you provide a URL? I don’t need it formatted for clickability, just paste it in.

Supposedly there were a few pro-Saddam teeny-boppers there too, versus more than 10,000 sane folks.

If anything gets big play on The Mainstream Media, guess which group it'll be...

ForNow - try www.foxnews.com :)

I didn’t say:

“Darned if I can find the FoxNews Website.”

I said:

“Darned if I can find the FoxNews Website report.” [emphasis added]

I meant:

Darned if I can find, at the FoxNews Website, the report.

And I just tried again! Perhaps mention of the march is buried in some otherwise-themed article, though I haven’t found it in those that I’ve skimmed.

And I also did some FoxNews searches -- on keyword Iraq, for instance.

Waiting for ABC,SMH, The Australian et al to report on it is disturbed only by the sound of a thousand cicadas on balmy summer evening.

Those pictures made my day. The power of the internet for all to see.

I did post about it at Lucianne here & gave credit & linked to Tim. Finally somebody found an AFP story on it & now that’s among the Must Reads.

Also from another Iraqi blog, Iraq The Model, 49 words from among many more:
http://IraqTheModel.blogspot.com/

No body seemed to be afraid, in fact today I felt safer than ever.
I didn't expect such a response from the Iraqi people after all the terror they have suffered-and still suffering- from. To me it was a total success. I hope more brave steps will follow.

Andrew Sullivan has also gotten into the act with links to Healing Iraq:

A DEMO IN IRAQ: This one is against terrorism. Why hasn't the NYT covered it? Perhaps tomorrow. From this photograph, it looks substantial to me.
- 3:10:06 PM

They're all still getting over Turkeygate and Bush Derangement Syndrome.

Apart from that, The Age's motto is Carpe Diem, which is Latin for 'if we don't print it, it didn't happen'. The ABC is too cool to have a motto, but if they did it would be 'the truth is in the eye of the ABC'.

Thank you Tim. This is what I was looking for in the news today, and leave it to you and Sulli to be the eyes and ears on this moment in history. I have the goose flesh looking at these pictures.

Will The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, or the ABC cover this at all? For that matter, will the News Ltd papers at least mention it?

Come on, Tim. What part of "News Limited" do you not understand?

Nice one Tim,

More useful sites like that please. I'll be adding that one to the list of regular reads.

Tim, Thank you so much for the coverage. I have been following the Iraqi blogs from the beginning and if you want insight into the minds of the Iraqis, this is the place to go. Screw the main stream media, just like Old Europe, Old media is dead. Zeyads Blog is also featured in Drudgereport.com, Instapundit.com. Rock on bloggers!

Fox News showed some video clips of the rallies, but then it's always been one of the few big media sources that isn't allergic to positive news coming out of Iraq.

Zeyad linked through Drudge? Rock on!

The Age's motto? If it's like the NY Times or the Chicago/LA Tribune, the motto is "Caveat Lector" -
which is Latin for "I got your quarter, chump!"

Funny that the AFP story, of all the marchers there, pulls aside a commie for a quote. Good that they're covering it, hilarious to think of the wellspring of brotherly goodwill they must have felt when they saw that freakin hammer & sickle.

Peetah Jennings had a bit on the march in ABC's evening news. He implied the crowd was augmented by groups advocating different political parties and not demonstrating against terrorism.

Always a bad thing, I suppose, people freely advocating diverse political parties.

Yes, Drudge has it, but with quotemarks around 'terrorism'.

It's not a REAL march unless there are anti-semetic signs about Zionists, and Bush-as-Hitler posters...

And human shields. And bulldozers.

And puppets. Don't forget the puppets.

Durned if I can find it on Fox News' site or Yahoo.

I found a lot about the non-coalition countries not getting to bid on rebuilding Iraq. They must not have heard the story of the Little Red, White and Blue Hen.

Who cares whether the Age, SMH or ABC carry the story; all informed citzens know that you log onto a blogger for the real reports.

You can see some Fox News stills here.

Good find TB.
Ultimately, the regime change will stand or fall on the Iraqi man in the street's willingness to resist Baathist-insurgent terror.

It doesn't appear on most of the big media also because the fact that that demonstration happened means, among other things, THAT IRAQ IS A LOT MORE UNDER AMERICAN CONTROL THAN THEY EVER WANTED TO ADMIT. No bombing, no fighting, not a single wounded person.

If it does get reported by the major media, can we expect proportional inflation of the number of people involved in the march? Based on previous results, I fully expect them to report a half million people or so.

Did a search on google news and couldnt find it either. But Google has a left wing slant on their main news listings page anyways so normally do not find anything related to positive news regarding US or its war on terror.

from the photos i saw it was a bunch of commies with hammer and sickle flags..
still nice to see them enjoying freedom for however long they decide they want it i guess

I can't believe an event so exceedingly rare as a pro-US rally of Iraqis in Baghdad was ignored by the Media. Doesn't rarity = newsworthy (Man bites dog). Wait, I mean I'm happy this wasn't on the news because it means these rallies happen everyday and something that happens everyday isn't newsworthy (Dog bites man). Paradoxes are inconvenient.

Yes, Al-Jazeera are a bunch of lying ragheads, that's why the actual number is probably more like 50 thousand.

"And I thought street marches were a waste of time and don't reflect the true feeling of the majority. That's what they said abt the anti-war marches."

Maybe and maybe not, but let's focus on what we do know -- about 60% of Americans are and were for war in Iraq, and over 90% of Iraqi's were for the war as well, so why not go from there instead of concentrating on the effectiveness or support for marches.

I haven't seen any mention of these marches in the Oz media yet. I looked at the online sites for The Australian, ninemsn, etc, but found nothing. Can anyone provide a link to such coverage?

Miranda, the liberal media will run a story on a demo of three people and a dog if it suits their agenda. Remember Albert Park? The protesters were reduced to one aging hippie and an old deckchair and it still got airtime. Even the placard was worn out.

The hypocrisy lies squarely with the liberal media, Miranda.

Why, certainly, The NYTimes would LOVE to report on anything substantial of newsworthy value in such a positive vein, IF ONLY it were anything more than simple Iraqis being manipulated by American stooges for public display... (yawn!)

We at NYTimes know all, see all and report all... or hadn't you figured that out, yet? There's NO hypocrisy here.

Move along....

Why, certainly, The NYTimes would LOVE to report on anything substantial of newsworthy value in such a positive vein, IF ONLY it were anything more than simple Iraqis being manipulated by American stooges for public display... (yawn!)

We at NYTimes know all, see all and report all... or hadn't you figured that out, yet? There's NO hypocrisy here.

Move along....

good point, ilibcc. I'd reply but i can;t rememebr what I said in my now removed post, which are now deemed too controversial for the free-thinking libertarian "journalist" that runs this sad little blogmire.