-PJ
Posted on 11/30/2008 4:59:00 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
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Just d@mn!
The MSM acts differently, when one of their own is at risk. When a CBC reporter was taken hostage in Afghanistan recently, there was a total news blackout for nearly a month (lifted only when she was released).
They live in their own reality apart from the rest of us. There was some Dilbet cameraman in Iraq that jumped out in the road to get a shot of a column of out tanks comming up the road. The shot ended with the camera hitting the ground. It seems some tanker thought the shoulder mounted video camera looked like a shoulder mounted rocket launcher and shot the guy. Good for the tanker. He was doing his job.
The journalist community was outraged at this (naturally) and jaw-flapped about the tragedy, the war, Bush, etc., but never hinted that a little forethought on the part of the cameraman might have prevented the incident.
As a general operating rule, journalist should not be trusted. (I would, however, let, if not encourage them to run with scissors).
He’s not a “nut.”
He seems a tad obsessed with this deathwatch issue. He should be calling it a newspaper deathwatch. He obviously hasn’t noticed that the millions in lost newspaper circulation has moved to the internet and television.
-PJ
All of the media companies are losing market share and profitability quarter-over-quarter, and aren't likely to ever make any of it back up.
Even with their moves to the internet, they are finding a paltry income from online ads, which is, at best, probably a hundredth of what they were making off ads in print.
The industry's time is expiring, and that is what the threads are all about.
This is nothing new for CNN. They knew all about Saddam’s atrocities, but looked the other way in order to keep their Baghdad office open.
“Some people at CNNLIES should be FIRED over this!”
“Some people at CNNLIES should be FRIED over this!”
There, that’s better...
You obviously didn’t see the results od the last presidential election, the elections for the U.S. Senate , the elections for the House of Representatives and Governors elections. The are more important issues than profit margins of newspapers occcuring in the US.
They used to be the good guys serving the troops and their friends and families back home. Today, they won't even wear a flag lapel pin or call a terrorist a terrorist so as not to offend them.
Capture, remove and detain or shoot on sight. Either way, get them out of the situation so they don't get good people killed.
Terror ping
I'll give you a chance to apologize to him on here.
It’s not just the newspapers, but the television and movies studios, as well.
All are liberal hotbeds, which help, in concert, to elect liberals and make conservatives look unappealing, even if they need to lie. As their income goes down, their influence goes down, too.
Those Deathwatch threads detail the fall of our liberal media complex.
The results of the past election are WHY the threads matter. Didn’t you notice the Obama bias? Even the media, itself, has admitted their overwhelming bias, but didn’t do anything to correct it.
CNN did the same thing about where troops were in Desert Storm—will never forget or forgive as my son was there at the time!
Does this woman and her husband intend to file a lawsuit to CNN and its entities over this?
Hey welcome to FR. Great place, isn’t it??
Not sure, but I do distinctly remember CNN cameras anxiously awaiting US Marines on the beaches of Somalia.
I remember hearing of CNN camera crews in Gulf War 1 being excited that there were bodies to film- and then disappointed that they weren’t American.
As soon as I find a news organization that’s all about who, what, when, where how and why- I will become a loyal customer/viewer/reader. Present actual, real facts, and leave me to draw whatever conclusions I may, irrespective of any political ramifications, and I will be there.
I have yet to find one.
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