Posted on 06/06/2006 10:40:58 PM PDT by duckln
The Marine incident, and its aftermath, at Haditha tells us much more about the media than it does about the Marines. And what it tells us ought to outrage us to the core.
On every radio and television show I appeared on last week (and all I observed) in which this topic came up, without exception at least one of the media people immediately attempted to implicate not just the still-presumed-innocent Marines, but the American military's leadership and methods in general.
The "Drive By Media" (Rush Limbaugh's scientifically accurate description) has already started to report this story in a manner that is likely do vast damage that may last for several years to the morale (and possibly recruitment) of our military. It will create a propaganda catastrophe of strategic proportions in our mortal struggle with radical Islam and their terrorist spear point.
And all this is being done by journalists who are seemingly oblivious to the consequences of their acts.
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But in the lunatic asylum which is today's America-at-war journalism, one possibly unfortunate event opens a flood gate of over-reporting, mis-reporting and just plain lying. Nothing is too harsh or too untrue to say about our military by these [fill in the blank].
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
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Balzac wisely observed, when you open a newspaper you are unwittingly entering a "garish intellectual brothel."
Balzac lived long before the advent of today's MSM. We can only speculate on what he would have made of them.
We should keep Balzac's accurate and fitting metaphor in mind as our brave Marines undergo their trial at the hands of the media.
"The Marine incident, and its aftermath, at Haditha tells us much more about the media than it does about the Marines. And what it tells us ought to outrage us to the core".
I'm outraged!!! A media with their own agenda is a very dangerous thing.
And - if I understand this correctly - this story supposidly happen in Nov. Time wrote about it in a Jan. issue.
Yet this really blows up in June - hmmm that leaves the summer to perk and then 6 wks before the election nothing can be said .........
And speaking of Buchanan...
What Haditha Portends
Townhall.Com ^ | 6 June, 2006 | Pat Buchanan
Posted on 06/06/2006 11:48:13 AM PDT by Army MP Retired
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1644437/posts
In WWII, these ###hats in the MSM would have been tried for trasone and shot (yes, SHOT). Maybe its time to go back to the "good old days"...
trasone = treason PIMF (sorry about that)
I'd go back in a flash...maybe we did have to go through air raid drills, but at least we figured all Americans supported protecting us. Yeah, I know...I was only six...
. . .but 'macabre' surely works to describe their 'Haditha response' - played out in an exhuberant and collective death dance of self- congratulatory hate for America and those who serve our country; . . .
and then this ensemble of the dispicable. . .imagine that for their efforts; they deserve our appreciation and applause.
(Of course, 'macabre' notwithstanding; the 'best' - of the worst - can always hope for a pulitzer. . .)
I disagree with Blankley in that US journalists don't know the harm they do to their country. I think that they are aware and 1 they don't care because it advances their careers or 2 that they want to bring the USA down ie, they are traitors who should be shot.
His concluding lines read:
"If only they loved their country's young and willing warriors as much as they loved their own children.
But the journalists today are too swept up in their own dance macabre to even notice the murderous consequences of their own malfeasance -- or to hear the demands of simple decency."
Spot on, but I would make one change to the first sentence...."...as much as they loved themselves" (instead of loved their own children). Today's media is so self-centered and arrogant they are unbearable. Look at how they report on their CBS colleague who was seriously injured in Iraq. ALWAYS saying how her cameramen died, as did a soldier. That they put themselves first in everything is just more evidence of their complete arrogance. They make me puke.
Spot on article by Tony.
You're right. I worked in the business for a time and can tell you that it's extremely ego driven.
You're only as good as your last story/production, etc.
Reporters, directors and producers play to their peers. They're not worried about what the inhabitants of fly-over country think.
IMHO, until some tort attorney steps in, this nonsense will always be with us. The deliberate, or negligent reporting or manufacture of "news", by professional journalists, has very real emotional and financial liabilities, from the medias attempts to purvey "news". I regard it as "journalistic malpractice"...it is not responsible for society and our nation to continue to tolerate this.
Lavern, to the media, the media is the story. How many times must we see that it's all about them?
Yep, that pretty much describes the MSM.
Pending the implementation of such a policy, journalists should sharply limit their reporting to the bare established facts, preferably reported once on page A 36. (You know, the way they report Democratic Party scandals.)
W is not meeting the challenge state side. Being more aggressive would skyrocket his numbers. The country is fed up with MSM's lethal 'across the board anti American games' and the Administration's pussy footing around on dealing with it.
Only place I know where the essence of the problem can be expressed is FR.
I'm all for it.
The old media behave like papperazi.
If the religion of peace wins ( they will not ), then pinch Sulzberger would be the first to get his head cut off.
A SMEAR YOU CAN'T TAKE BACK
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/005343.htm
If the Democrats win the house, look for them to cut off the money for the Iraq war, just as they did in Vietnam.
BTTT
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Thanks for the ping Ali
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