This is probably why so many reporters don't think they are biased. When they hang with LIBERALS, they think and write like LIBERALS. When they're not hanging with LIBERALS they get a broader picture.
To: Cincinatus' Wife
Welcome to the real world.
Soldiers have always seen wars just from their own limited perspective. It's inevitable, since trotting all over a battlefield trying to get an overview generally results in winding up dead.
BTW, most of the journalists' Godlike "overview" during the Vietnam War was simply an illusion they successfully projected back to America. For instance, they managed to portray the Tet Offensive, a catastrophic defeat for the Vietcong, as a victory for them.
And most of their writing was done from the perspective of Saigon bars.
2 posted on
05/05/2003 2:02:37 AM PDT by
Restorer
(TANSTAAFL)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
I would think that anyone spending time on a battlefield would be snapped out of their child-like Kumbaya dillusions, and into the reality that the world is a dangerous place, and to be weak is to be dead.
I suspect there were more than a few battlefield conversions for those embedded journalists. God bless those who had the courage to go, especially those who lost their lives doing so.
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05/05/2003 9:26:53 AM PDT by
Search4Truth
(When a man lies, he murders part of the world.)
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