Only ABC Airs Full Story on Good Iraq News, NBC Can't Resist Caveat

Brent Baker
June 23rd, 2008 9:12 PM

The Pentagon on Monday released a quarterly report showing dramatic reductions in violence in Iraq compared to a year earlier, but only ABC aired a full story Monday evening while NBC gave it short-shrift as anchor Brian Williams cited the reduction in violence “by as much as 80 percent” since “before the so-called troop surge.” He then added a caveat about how the report “also warns the…