Posted on 07/03/2005 3:35:41 PM PDT by Impeach98
Critics Call Radio Hosts' Trip Propaganda Mission
Sunday, July 03, 2005 By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
WASHINGTON — A contingent of conservatives talk radio hosts is headed to Iraq this month on a mission to report "the truth" about the war: American troops are winning, despite headlines to the contrary.
The "Truth Tour" has been pulled together by the conservative Web cast radio group Rightalk.com and Move America Forward, a non-profit conservative group backed by a Republican-linked public relations firm in California.
"The reason why we are doing it is we are sick and tired of seeing and hearing headlines by the mainstream media about our defeat in Iraq," Melanie Morgan, a talk radio host (search) for KSFO Radio in San Francisco and co-chair of Move America Forward, said.
Morgan said the media is "imposing a Vietnam template on this war."
"This is not Vietnam," she said. "War is war, and it's dangerous, and the killing is taking place all of the time. At the same time, where there is danger, there is success and there is a mainstream media that is determined to shut out that success."
She said the group is going to Iraq to support American troops, who see a disconnection with what they experience and what's being reported in the United States. She said the incongruence is leading to "morale problems."
But critics, including independent journalists who have reported from Iraq, say the trip is a propaganda mission for the U.S. military and the Bush administration and cannot be considered "journalism" by any standards.
"This is the most pathetic thing I've heard in a long time. They should be ashamed of themselves," Peter Beinart, editor of left-leaning The New Republic magazine, said.
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Shame on them...that's the tactic of the left-wing media... report on conservatives by reporting on how people say they are wrong/bad/evil.
the left has done their best to distort iraq to their advantage.
where do you think all those po' folks get new american flags, and nicely painted anti-u.s. signs? -- from the american journalists.
I have no problem with FOX on this--reporters/commentators going over to report on a story is NOT a news story; being criticized for it is.
"This is the most pathetic thing I've heard in a long time. They should be ashamed of themselves," Peter Beinart, editor of left-leaning The New Republic magazine, said,
"What's the matter? Don't they trust us?"
The "critics" don't "get it." "Propaganda" is written by Leftist jugheads in the offices of the NYT and WaPo in New York. Going to Iraq to see for yourself is not "propaganda."
It is disapointing to see Fox News give all of that space to the critics.
But, the point is that the left is going crazy that Move America Forward to taking conservative talk show hosts to Iraq to broadcast the truth from the mouths of the Marines, soliers and airmen themselves.
The liberals can't live with the truth. They have to twist everything into their "Blame America First" mentality.
The first sanctioned tour by CENTCOM of talk radio hosts going over to Iraq isn't a news story in your mind? Wow - you and I see it differently. I think the fact that talk radio is going to allow U.S. Troops to report directly on how they see things going after they've complained other media outlets only report on bad news is very much a news story. You and I certainly look at this quite differently!
Hey, pretty cool
Ping
What lib talk radio hosts have asked to go over?
Liberal talk radio hosts were invited - but they declined. One of them was Alan Colmes I believe!
Methinks the "critics" protest too much.....
How dare these people go to Iraq to get a first-hand experience of what the war is really like!! They should just trust the mainstream ultra-liberal media. When has the liberal media ever been wrong?
How dare these people go to Iraq to get a first-hand experience of what the war is really like!! They should just trust the mainstream ultra-liberal media. When has the liberal media ever been wrong?
sorry about the repost.
(s)How dare talk radio bypass the legacy media.(/s)
FNC is too slow to report on this. What is it with FNC lately? It is as if they keep slipping in DNC talking points. (ie Suport Gonzalez, Weasely Clerk, Oreily's weaseling his harvard into his comentaries)
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