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Fighting escalated in the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Friday when a U.S. airstrike killed five civilians according to Iraqi police and hospital sources. The U.S. military has claimed that four armed militants were killed in the attack. In addressing the violence in Basra, President Bush called the clashes \u201ca defining moment in the history of Iraq,\u201d as well as a \u201cnecessary part of the development of a free society.\u201d As the battles continue in Basra between the Iraqi government\u2019s forces and Shite militias affiliated with Moqtada Al Sadr, critics in the United States have taken the media to task for its coverage. Institute for Public Accuracy\u2019s Norman Solomon recently wrote an article assessing National Public Radio\u2019s framing of the conflict. In questioning whether the public radio network\u2019s acronym actually stands for National Pentagon Radio, Solomon criticizes a reporter\u2019s assertion that the Basra operations \u201cneeded to happen,\u201d as well as the prevalence of retired generals as commentators on its shows. Meanwhile, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting has also taken NPR to task claiming that the network has underreported the number of Iraqi deaths. In reporting the low end estimate, an NPR anchor presumably used a figure from June 2006 from a source that has since nearly doubled its estimation of civilian deaths in Iraq. <\/p>\n For more information, visit www.accuracy.org<\/a>, and www.fair.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" | the entire program GUEST: Jim Naureckas, Editor of Extra! FAIR’s Magazine, Norman Solomon, Executive Director of the Institute for Public Accuracy Fighting escalated in the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Friday when a U.S. airstrike killed five civilians according to Iraqi police and hospital sources. The U.S. military has claimed that four armed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"NPR\"](\"http:\/\/www.marlerblog.com\/06.23%20NPR-cvr.jpg\")
GUEST: Jim Naureckas, Editor of Extra! FAIR’s Magazine, Norman Solomon, Executive Director of the Institute for Public Accuracy<\/em><\/p>\n