This is good news, though, of course, the Al-Reuters reporter, Alastair Macdonald, had to throw in a few negatives:
U.S.-led forces freed three Christian peace activists held hostage in Iraq on Thursday in an operation mounted two weeks after the kidnappers tortured and killed their American colleague.
Canadians Jim Loney, 41, and Harmeet Sooden, 32, and 74-year-old British pacifist Norman Kember from Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) were snatched in Baghdad in November.
The tortured body of American Tom Fox was found dumped in the capital two weeks ago.
Any chance of focusing on the great rescue, Alastair? Is it any wonder that people find the media to be untrustworthy and make the claim that they are focused soley on negatives out of Iraq? WHat I excerpted is the first three paragraphs of the story, of which almost 2/3 is spent talking about the activist who was killed.
Furthermore, if you read the rest of the Al Quaida Reuters story, you find mentions of car bombs and other violence, and it ends with more info on the Tom Fox, the murdered hostage, then on those rescued. So, Drive By Media, can you tell us if this was a positive or negative story from Iraq?
