Because they’re afraid of not seeming “OBJECTIVE.” Insert laugh track here.
US news media, CBS News this time, use the same video–which appeared on Al Qaeda website for which the terror group takes credit–and the CBS reporter doesn’t bother to mention it. CBS chooses not to air it because it’s too bloody. The Al Qaeda cellphone photog uses close ups of executed Iraqi soldiers.
Here’s the run down on the battle of Haifa Street in Baghdad from the US perspective…

Here’s the Pentagon angle:

Here’s some of what CBS was given by their reporter (they didn’t run it because it was too bloody but they put it on their website)…which was partnered with a Haifa Street ‘resident’ conveniently covered by the same material used by the insurgents to keep their identities secret. Of course the CBS reporter didn’t say where she got the tape. Of course she didn’t say it was shot by Al Qaeda and appeared on an Al Qaeda website. That might make her and– them– look…bad.
Here’s where you can find the al Qaeda video.

Michelle Malkin has more here. Newsbusters has more here. No, the news media doesn’t have anything more—until they get it hand delivered from Al Qaeda.