You Can Lead the Main Stream Media To a Massacre But You Can't Make Them Cover It --Even With Coordinates MC 679 381.

On July 1st, Michael Yon went to al Hamira an Iraqi village on the outskirts of Bagubah and 3.5 miles out from a fully fortified Army base to take pictures and interviews of the massacre of 10-14 men, women and children. The children had their heads cut off.

To date mainstream media coverage of this atrocity has been---- nada, zip, nothing.

Robin Boyd--NewsBusters: There has been a massacre of innocent civilians in Iraq. An entire village of Iraqis were murdered and buried in a mass grave. The dead included women and children. The murderers even slaughtered the animals in the village. From the state of the surroundings it was obvious that this was a deliberate act - maybe brought on by rage of the death of a comrade or just the overwhelming pressure of fighting in a war zone.

Amazingly the media in the US has not picked up on the story. Tim McGirk has not headed to Iraq to do an expose on this latest My Lai incident. Murtha hasn't called a press conference to call out the perpetrators for committing "cold blooded murder". The liberal bloggers have failed to equate the massacre to the "torture" at Abu Ghraib.

Matt Hurley Weapons of Mass Destruction: "If American media fails to cover this with the same amount of gusto that they have pursued Haditha and Abu Ghraib, they will be demonstrating their preference for whom they wish to win this conflict. The press has to tell the story that evil really does exist in this world. Imagine if the story of the Holocaust was never told because the media was only interested in reporting Allied atrocities. Yes, by failing to treat this war objectively, the media does indeed enable massacres such as this one and history will judge the coverage of this war very harshly."

Even with Michael Yon doing everything he can to get the story out there are no takers Google that I can find other than fast and first--National Review Online, Pajamas Media, and Fox News. Yon has a standing offer of permission granted NO COST "to media outlets to republish excerpts of the dispatch or the dispatch in its entirety, including my photographs from the story (if used as they are in the dispatch) at no cost during the month of July 2007. I only ask that the site receive proper attribution and that any publication taking me up on the offer email the website with the details."



So WHY!? Is the Main Stream Media running away from this story?