Posted on 09/13/2006 3:07:43 AM PDT by Cannoneer No. 4
Excellent article. It's a very discouraging situation, particularly because there has never been a time before when the media has been so influential in molding people's opinions, although I don't understand why. As a result, as the writer pointed out, the media workers have come to feel that they themselves are the story and have created a truly distorted lens through which they are seeing and reporting everything.
It must indeed be very discouraging to be doing real work in Iraq, making real achievements, and yet be subject to the opinions and whims of a bunch of little wusses who are there because they took an easy major in college - and who somehow have wound up with the power to control the way the entire world sees you and your work.
Thanks. Good Article.
Critics bitch about sodas delivered to the troops in a combat zone at $50/case but don't say squat about a $4 fountain drink at sports stadium or airport.
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Is there any way this could be moved to some category in News?
Because the information in it will be NEWS to most people, I think...
Great article. Yet further confirms in my mind 95% of what good has been done thus far will never see the light of print.
"They tried to re-invent the wheel anyway."
Yes they did. Half the problem was getting them to stop doing that. The other half was teaching them how we actually did things.
I originally posted it to News, but Winds of Change is considered a blog, so gets exiled where few will see it.
"Half the problem was getting them to stop doing that. The other half was teaching them how we actually did things."
Amen brother.
But it wasn't impossible for the western press to miss. In fact, as I think about it, it's quite possible they've actually missed the whole war. Unless reporting can be described as burying oneself in a few relatively safe places with others of one's own kind, they have missed far more than they have covered. It is difficult for myself and many others to have respect for western journalists in Iraq because they so very rarely committed themselves to actually going out and covering what was going on.
The ENEMEDIA had/has an agenda. They will NOT report anything positive. They are rooting against this Country and against the troops. Their hatred and fear of President Bush has caused them to side with the enemy, celebrating every mistake and any bad news they can report. My disgust for the ENEMEDIA is even greater than that of the RATS...so you KNOW where I stand!
The ENEMEDIA=the enemy from within!
Thanks for the ping and my chance to rant! ;o)
But his political reporting on Iraq is incisive and groundbreaking, yes? /sarc
Maybe he should have been embedded with Code Pink.
Bump! Thanks for the ping.
I'm bookmarking this for a later read. Fascinating stuff.
$4? those are bargains. A beer at Soldier Field cost 6.50 last year this year it likely will be more. Will find out Sunday.
KBR
LSI
EGG
Parsons
Triple Canopy
Cochise
Blackwater
EOD Tech
SAIS
Titan
L-3
Raytheon
General Dynamics
Wackenhut
ITT
Wolfpack
Those are off the top of my head anyway...
When the USMC came to town they turned some of their bases in to HESCO-villes. They seemed to think that there was more threat from inside the base from contractors than from outside. Then they refused to listen to the Cav and 82nd about convoy security and it cost them dearly.
"They seemed to think that there was more threat from inside the base from contractors than from outside."
I have to say the local national labor force that showed up at the gates of Balad/Anaconda every morning was a little worrisome.
A third country national working for KBR was caught red handed trying to steal a rifle from a sleeping trooper's hooch, at some odd hour of the morning.
Wnen I was in Anaconda a VBIED detonated between the blast walls only killing the driver.
A few more:
CACI
Anteon
Northrup-Grumman
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