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01-04-07, 08:40 AM
January 03, 2007
Media can’t capture full picture in Iraq, Snow says
By Rick Maze
Staff writer
Senior White House spokesman Tony Snow said Wednesday that media accounts of the situation in Iraq don’t give the full picture, but added he does not blame the media itself.
“It is absolutely impossible for any reporting to capture full the complexity of a situation like that,” Snow said. “It is humanly impossible.”
Snow’s comment came as reporters tried, without success, to get him to provide clues about what President Bush will announce as the new U.S. strategy in Iraq next week. Bush is widely expected to announce a temporary increase in U.S. troop levels in Iraq in what is being called a “surge and accelerate” plan to improve security to the point that Iraqi forces can take on more of the mission.
Snow said journalists are limited in what they can include in a print or broadcast news article. “The president has more time and gets far more information than one is going to be able to shove into even the best and most thoughtfully produced news story or television report,” Snow said.
“I think what happens is we may be out of touch with reality because we sit around and we look at fractional pictures on the screen,” Snow said. “This is a president who gets exhaustive briefings on a daily basis about the situation. He knows more than anybody in this room about what's going on” in Iraq.
Ellie
Media can’t capture full picture in Iraq, Snow says
By Rick Maze
Staff writer
Senior White House spokesman Tony Snow said Wednesday that media accounts of the situation in Iraq don’t give the full picture, but added he does not blame the media itself.
“It is absolutely impossible for any reporting to capture full the complexity of a situation like that,” Snow said. “It is humanly impossible.”
Snow’s comment came as reporters tried, without success, to get him to provide clues about what President Bush will announce as the new U.S. strategy in Iraq next week. Bush is widely expected to announce a temporary increase in U.S. troop levels in Iraq in what is being called a “surge and accelerate” plan to improve security to the point that Iraqi forces can take on more of the mission.
Snow said journalists are limited in what they can include in a print or broadcast news article. “The president has more time and gets far more information than one is going to be able to shove into even the best and most thoughtfully produced news story or television report,” Snow said.
“I think what happens is we may be out of touch with reality because we sit around and we look at fractional pictures on the screen,” Snow said. “This is a president who gets exhaustive briefings on a daily basis about the situation. He knows more than anybody in this room about what's going on” in Iraq.
Ellie