Only in the minds of the press, Troop.
FIDO.
The press, by and large, are maggots. Don't believe me? Just ask a member of the press. They loathe one another. Just like lawyers do.
Want to see the biggest conglomeration of moaners and whiners in DC? Simple, just got to the National Press Club bar on Friday afternoons. There you will see a terrific gathering of poorly-dressed, overweight, loudmouth know-it-alls known as "journalists". But then the citizenry of our country has always thought little of the press. No point in changing now, is there?
I thought the same thing when I heard them STILL talking about these reporters.
There's the rub
Because our supposedly objective non-biased MSM loves nothing more than making itself the subject of the story. Newsman goes to war zone and gets wounded? That's a real dog-bites-man story AFAIC.
I think all reporters should get a Purple Heart because of the injuries suffered by the two ABC Newsmen. At least that's my opinion derived from the way every reporter covered it on every channel every hour. Orwellian.
Blum and Kelly died in Iraq. But Blum died of natural causes, I guess, and Kelly was sympathetic to the American and Coalition cause. So they don't count.
My heart pumps piss for wartime media traitors. They do not deserve to share a hospital with our wounded troops.
Agree with all the comments on this thread and others.
I would only add this.
It just shows that the main stream pressitutes are not writing/printing "What the people want to hear". It shows beyond a shadow of a doubt that they are motivated by "what they want to write". The average man in the street could give a rat's hind end for someone who just took over for Petah Jennings and whom very few people would know the name or the face.
Of course 10 news cycles later, everyone has heard the name, but that is after it has been drummed/beaten into them. But the original decsision to make this banner headline stuff can *only* derive from their narcissistic desire to make themselves the story.
Which is which we have been saying all along.
It really is a funhouse of mirrors when you try to analyze whether the press is a certain way because the people expect it or whether the people expect it because the press is a certain way and after a few news cycles the distinction becomes impossible to make.
But in this one case the distinction is simple to make - this is the press writing for the press and not because they are "giving the people what they want."
Case closed.
It's a mind-set for reporters graduating
Journalism school. In the same way
every young reporter wants a "Watergate
scoop" like Woodward and Berstein, every
embedded reporter sees himself as an
Ernie Pyle! And who can deny the nightly newscasters/analysts from Hannity or
O'Reilly to Brown don't envision themselves
as the latest version of Rather and Jennings.
It's more than just an 'impression'. During Good Morning America on Monday, I believe it was Diane Sawyer who made the observation that perhaps Woodruff's being so badly injured would be the "tipping point" in the war, that he was someone so well-known that it would be "one person too many". With comments like this from the arrogant 'It's All About Us' media, no wonder the troops are offended and upset ......
If I could have reached through the TV and slapped Diane's smarmy face I would have (and Elizabeth Vargas would have been next).
" It's a bit stunning to us over here how absolutely dominant the story is on every network and front page. I mean, you'd think we lost the entire 1st Marine Division or something."
This is exactly what I have been thinking.