{"id":2602,"date":"2006-03-24T08:12:24","date_gmt":"2006-03-24T12:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2602"},"modified":"2006-03-24T08:12:24","modified_gmt":"2006-03-24T12:12:24","slug":"video-abcs-good-news-in-iraq-story-turns-violent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=2602","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO &#8211; ABC&#8217;s &#8216;Good News in Iraq&#8217; Story Turns Violent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Guest blogged by <b><a href=\"mailto:david@edwardsdavid.com\" target=\"_blank\">David Edwards<\/a><\/b> of <b><a href=\"http:\/\/veredictum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Veredictum.com<\/a><\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edwardsdavid.com\/media\/abc\/Images\/abc_nl_iraq_good_news_060323a1.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/video\/flvplayer\/FlvPlayer.html?file=http:\/\/www.ameratsu.com\/media\/vid\/abc\/abc_nl_iraq_good_news_060323a_320x240.flv&#038;width=320&#038;height=240&#038;OrigWidth=320&#038;OrigHeight=240\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/video\/flvplayer\/bb_play_video-a.gif\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/video\/flvplayer\/FlvPlayer.html?file=http:\/\/www.ameratsu.com\/media\/vid\/abc\/abc_nl_iraq_good_news_060323a_320x240.flv&#038;width=320&#038;height=240&#038;OrigWidth=320&#038;OrigHeight=240\">Video in Streaming Flash format&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ameratsu.com\/media\/vid\/abc\/abc_nl_iraq_good_news_060323a_320x240.wmv\">Video in Windows Media format&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Responding to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tompaine.com\/articles\/2006\/03\/23\/bushs_media_blame_game.php\">President&#8217;s criticism<\/a> of the media coverage of Iraq, <i>ABC&#8217;s Nightline<\/i>, airs the story of an attempt to report on good news in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>After a day of covering the horrible violence in Iraq, ABC reporter <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/IraqCoverage\/story?id=1718738&#038;page=1\">Jake Tapper tried to find some lighter news<\/a>. The ABC News team decided to cover a new Iraqi sitcom and the challenges of creating comedy for Iraqi television viewers.<\/p>\n<p>The story quickly turned from good news to tragedy and fear as Jake&#8217;s contact, who was also the head of the entertainment division for Iraqi TV, was murdered during filming. <\/p>\n<p>Jake Tapper concludes the story with these words: &#8220;And there went our effort to show comedians trying to make Iraqis smile again. It ended with the funeral of the man who helped us put the story together. <b>A horrible, gruesome, perfect metaphor for daily life in Iraq.<\/b>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest blogged by David Edwards of Veredictum.com Video in Streaming Flash format&#8230; Video in Windows Media format&#8230; Responding to the President&#8217;s criticism of the media coverage of Iraq, ABC&#8217;s Nightline, airs the story of an attempt to report on good news in Iraq. After a day of covering the horrible violence in Iraq, ABC reporter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}