Posted on 04/03/2006 4:55:23 PM PDT by SandRat
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Gee,...wonder why the MSM can't find these stories? Have we no Ernie Pyle's in the ranks of the MSM?
Today, Ernie Pyle would be a blogger.
They talked about Joe Galloway and Ernie Pyle and interviewed the guy who took the picture of that South Vietnamese colonel blowing away that Vietcong guy his men had just captured. I've always read that the main reason the colonel had shot him was because he was an enemy combatant captured in civilian clothing, but the photographer explained that the guy had been sniping at American and South Vietnamese troops, killing or wounding several before being captured. He (the photographer) didn't think it was a very good picture, certainly not one that should have won the Pulitzer.
They also talked about how dangerous it is for journalists in combat. They mentioned Ernie Pyle and Robert Capra as two examples, then mentioned Robert Wysekopf (sp) and some of their own Fox journalists who were wounded in Iraq.
Yep it was fair and acurrate. Definately not what the rest of the MSM would have come up with.
I try not to pay any attention to what those idiots in the MSM say. I always turn the breakroom TV to FoxNews and have converted over half of my coworkers to Fox fans. We sometimes switch back and forth between Fox, CNN, and MSNBC just to see the differences in their stories, and it is a riot.
No Ernie Pyles, mebbe, but we do have Michael Yon and Bill Roggio. I would hope that FReepers are paying attention to these guys, because what they're doing is as unprecedented as Pyle's work. BTT.
It was good. I didn't know about Rupert Murdoch's dad. I knew about Gallipoli, but didn't realize his part in it.
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