Posted on 03/26/2013 11:29:15 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
("Let Me Finish" segment, aired 3/25/2013) .....
What can we do, we often but not always ask, at the end of war: what could we do to have stopped it?
One thing, of course, is a vital free press: men and women able and set on reporting the truth, the motivations of the warhawks, the faults in the intelligence, the alternative paths that the leaders have failed to explore, and, of course, a reasonable estimate of the horrors to come. ......
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
“Matthews: What Could We, The Media, Have Done To Stop The War?”
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“The War” ?????
Which War? And when?
Semper BS !!!!!
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“men and women able and set on reporting the truth”
He should have been struck by lightning after that comment.
(1) Although the citizenry believes they elect representatives to make public policy, they are mistaken.
(2) Although the citizenry believes that journalists have a professional responsibility to objectively report events, they are mistaken.
(3) The true job of journalists is to use their position to make public policy. They have a professional responsibility to subvert the electoral process and to distort the public's knowledge of events.
Which War?
Doesnt matter, they were all Bushs’ fault.
How about the merely report the facts and nothing but the facts.
The overall objective was never to stop the war, it was to use the war to flog Bush in a political power grab. The last thing the media wanted was for the war to stop.
Talk about delusions of grandeur............
A majority of Democrat Senators voted for the Iraq war.
Listening to a “journalist” tell us about war tactics would be akin to listening to a “journalist” tell us about climate change.
Oh, forgot....
Pre-emptive journalism. They are trying to mask the Democrats fumbling in the Middle East behind Bush and Iraq. As important as Matthews thinks he is, he can’t go back in time ten years. That is an impossibility that even an imbecile like Matthews should understand. But, he could say something about Obama and Libya or Obama and Egypt or Obama and Syria, but he doesn’t. Why? Is it really that important to elect Democrats? Obama and the Democrats are screwing around in the Middle East, and for what purpose? Has Matthews even bothered to consider this? No. It’s his team and everything is OK because it’s his team. He is juvenile in his thinking. He’s a boy.
Oh brother!!
Seriously, I think what really needs to be asked here is this. “Should a man with serious mental issues be allowed to report what liberals believe to be the news?”
Get ye to a psychiatrist Chris.
Well, you "journalists" could have quit carrying water for Communists and Muslims about the turn of the Twentieth Century, ya know.
Chris, it’s really simple. The media did not want to stop the war. What you should be asking the media is why not?
Thanks for that, and G’day from sunny Florida!
Hey, Tingly Boy! You get one vote to elect people who advocate the domestic and foreign policy you believe in, just like anyone else. Beyond that, your job is to honestly report current events (yeah, I know, sounds like a lot of work). Your personal opinion about policy is no more important than that of any other single individual in the country. Slightly less, actually, since you’re a moron.
This poop stain on the carpet is damn hard to make go away!
It is not the job of a free press to start or stop wars. It's job is only to report the facts in an unbiased fashion. Of course, that's not how it's working, as this article so aptly points out.
“Not your yob.”
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