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Fears Impacted U.S. Reporting on Iraq ( lessons learned )
The Las Vegas Sun ^
| March 20, 2004 at 4:55:47 PST
| MIELIKKI ORG
Posted on 03/20/2004 9:56:45 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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This is interesting but likely has a somewhat hidden agenda since Robert Sheer, a syndicated columnist for the Los Angeles Times was in attendance and got his name in the column from Berkely.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
What a bunch of BS.
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posted on
03/20/2004 9:59:26 AM PST
by
sd-joe
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
The only time the Ivory Tower crowd criticizes the media is for being "too conservative." Which means being not totally supportive of the current Democrat talking points.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
"Competitive pressures and a fear of appearing unpatriotic discouraged journalists from doing more critical reporting during the run-up to the invasion of Iraq...It is exactly because the press is competitive and unpatriotic that caused them to be critical of the liberation of Iraq. They are now lying to themselves.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Talk about cognitive dissonance. To leftists reporters, the fact that Hussein was routinely firing missiles at our pilots did not constitute a legitimate ground for going to war.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
The journalists on the panels at the University of California at Berkeley this week blamed the Bush administration for leaking faulty information, but said the media also has itself to blame for not being more skeptical about the case for war. " Comforting Thought:
Korean Missiles might be able to reach Berkeley.
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posted on
03/20/2004 10:13:15 AM PST
by
Gorzaloon
(Contents may have settled during shipping, but this tagline contains the stated product weight.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Much of the criticism focused on a Sept. 8, 2002, New York Times article by Judith Miller and Michael Gordon, which said Iraq was importing aluminum tubes that could be used in centrifuges to enrich uranium, a critical step in making an atomic bomb.I'm still not buying the story peddled by Saddam and the leftist media, that these tubes, made to exacting tolerances, were meant for missile bodies. I've seen firsthand the junk that the Iraqis used for missiles.
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posted on
03/20/2004 10:17:08 AM PST
by
AF68
To: All
fear of appearing unpatriotic Our mainstream press? If they didn't appear unpatriotic we would not be able to see them.
Gee, no mention of CNN's Eason Jordan's New York Times Op-Ed article admitting that CNN refrained from reporting truthfully about Saddam Hussein all through the 1990s-plus. ABCNNBCBS helped greatly to spread the lies about U.S. sanctions killing 9,000,000,000,000 Iraqi children every day while Uncle Saddam fretted. The free press let us know that he was fretting because he was running out of room to store tons of dollars.
If the AP employee was a real reported he would have mentioned this.
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posted on
03/20/2004 10:20:18 AM PST
by
WilliamofCarmichael
(Benedict Arnold was a hero for both sides in the same war, too!)
To: Gorzaloon
Right, but I would be concerned about collateral damage. ( Livermore mainly!)
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posted on
03/20/2004 10:21:52 AM PST
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
said Robert Sheer, a syndicated columnist for the Los Angeles Times.
Robert Sheer, is the most rabid Bush hating leftist there is. I wouldn't trust him to give me a straight story if my life depended on it.
Burns, of the NYT did a good job.
To: baseballmom
Sheer is a an out and out commie.
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posted on
03/20/2004 10:32:40 AM PST
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
There is no doubt that there is an atmosphere of fear in the media of being out of sync with the punitive government,"Paranoid leftist imbecile.
Carrying on as if he and his fellow com-symps are "disappearing".
They're not worth the trouble.
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posted on
03/20/2004 10:33:53 AM PST
by
Rome2000
(Foreign leaders for Kerry!!!!!)
To: anniegetyourgun
They also seem somehow convinced that we have lost the war, never mind that we have Hussein in custody.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Fears impacted U.S. reporting on IraqThis is such a corny usage of this word. I wonder if the AP style manual has anything to say about this.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Oh, I see, so the media is now admitting they reported out of "fear," in other words, that they are a pack of cowards. Well, it's about time...But isn't it convenient that they make this startling admission in the context of their appeasement agenda.
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posted on
03/20/2004 10:43:21 AM PST
by
My2Cents
("Well...there you go again.")
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Any panel that has Scheer on it can only be a communist propaganda tool. When you combine Scheer and Berkeley, Lord save us all!
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posted on
03/20/2004 10:44:09 AM PST
by
Bernard Marx
(In theory there's no difference between theory and practice. But in practice there is.)
To: My2Cents
Did they also admit to their own laziness?
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posted on
03/20/2004 10:47:19 AM PST
by
Carolinamom
(Currently re-programming my thinking to positive mode.)
To: All
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posted on
03/20/2004 11:12:32 AM PST
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
He deflected accusations that the Pentagon decision to
....embed about 700 journalists with troops fighting in the Iraq war allowed the government to influence their coverage.... "The reason we embedded so many journalists is that we wanted to dominate the information environment," Long said. "We wanted to beat any kind of disinformation or propaganda by beating them at their own game."In other words, "embed" so many reporters that none of them can get away with lying unless all 700 collude on the lie. Perfect.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; Perlstein; William McKinley; holdonnow; Liz; LS; Joe Hadenuf
"Journalists fear they will be seen as unpatriotic if they challenge White House statements, said Robert Sheer, a syndicated columnist for the Los Angeles Times. "There is no doubt that there is an atmosphere of fear in the media of being out of sync with the punitive government," Sheer said."
Oh...My...God...
It is Robert Scheer, not "Sheer" and he isn't just a syndicated columnist, but rather is a dedicated Communist who PRAISED NORTH KOREA'S WONDERFUL PROSPERITY who is married to one of the owners of the LA Times itself!
Sheesh. This is how far "higher" education has sunk, that AP reporters at UC Berkeley no longer even have the wherewithal to get a simple name or fact correct at any level.
On a side note, the national education test results were released last month for grades 1 through 12, and Alabama made it into the top 50% for its first time. Sadly, our poor rural state only cracked into the top half of all school results because so many other states have fallen so far in their standards and in their results.
Our high school students are head and shoulders above the AP reporters at UC Berkeley, for instance, but that's only because colleges such as Berkeley have fallen so far.
Total for this search: $1,000
Contributor |
Occupation |
Date |
Amount |
Recipient |
SCHEER, ROBERT SANTA MONICA,CA 90403 |
COLUMNIST |
10/30/2000 |
$1,000 |
Kucinich, Dennis J |
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posted on
03/20/2004 11:26:26 AM PST
by
Southack
(Media bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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