CBS - CBS'S MAN IN BAGHDAD REFLECTS ON DEAD CATS REPORTS

CBS News's Baghdad correspondent has expressed frustration over how the television networks -- presumably his own, in particular -- currently cover the war in Iraq. In an article posted on the CBSNews.com website under the heading, "Covering Iraq: Trying to Connect," Correspondent Allen Pizzey writes that while the networks devoted much attention last week to 12 pets who were killed by tainted dog and cat food, the deaths of 12 human beings in Iraq would have gone unreported. "How 12 dead animals in a country the size of the U.S. rates with the sliding scale of mayhem here is what I'm finding hard to gauge," Pizzey wrote. "When only 12 human bodies are found on any given morning in Baghdad with marks of the kind of torture the ASPCA would quite rightly have a pet owner in court for, it is judged as 'progress' for the security plan."

26/03/2007