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"I Am Not One of Them" - Journalists at War with the Human Race
The Question Fairy ^
| 11/17/04
| Becki Snow
Posted on 11/17/2004 12:16:23 PM PST by dandelion
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posted on
11/17/2004 12:16:25 PM PST
by
dandelion
To: dandelion
FYI, the comment's section of Sites's blog is being heavily deleted.
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posted on
11/17/2004 12:18:18 PM PST
by
finnman69
(cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
To: dandelion
Dumbass Sites just not get it that the American public except for the hard core left doesn't give a damn about that terrorist that got shot
They are more concerned with what the terrorists do
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posted on
11/17/2004 12:32:01 PM PST
by
uncbob
To: dandelion
Telling that he references Chris Hedges' "War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning".
It's a mess of a book, and an example of what happens when a "journalist" with a few facts extrapolates huge sweeping conclusions from them. But in a nutshell, war is a force that gives Hedges meaning. And Chris Hedges is not half as interesting to the rest of us as he is to himself.
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posted on
11/17/2004 12:34:00 PM PST
by
Gefreiter
("Flee...into the peace and safety of a new dark age." HP Lovecraft)
To: dandelion
As I have said before the presstitutes will employ 'critical distance' with any enemy the US engages in combat with. Even a really large scale protracted war with significant civilian casualties within the US will not much change this stance.
Its not hard to imagine how the current generation of pressies would have covered D-Day with the muddled disorganization of the airborne landings and the high casualties at Omaha and one of the British beaches. I'm sure Dr. Goebbels would have loved people such as Mr. Stites and enabled him to go places and write about things no German reporter would have been allowed to. Knowing his pictures and coverage would only be shown on the Allied side spreading its unspoken but obvious message of defeatism and despair.
To: dandelion
Not sure I would go so far as to refer to his "them" comment meaning the human race, but this is scary insight into Sites and his thinking. May have to check out his blog for myself.
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posted on
11/17/2004 12:34:55 PM PST
by
Chipper
To: dandelion
Stop consuming old media's product. It's really that easy. They're always telling us that if we don't like what they are putting out, then turn it OFF!
What are you waiting for?
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posted on
11/17/2004 12:38:27 PM PST
by
Owl558
(Don't tread on me!)
To: Owl558
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posted on
11/17/2004 12:40:39 PM PST
by
dandelion
(http://thequestionfairy.blogspot.com/)
To: dandelion
'I am not one of them.'This line says it all. It reeks of the arrogant, elitist mindset that dominates the MSM. This mindset is the reason the MSM will, from here on out, see it's influence diminish to nothing.
THEM have decided that enough is enough.
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posted on
11/17/2004 12:41:40 PM PST
by
tx_eggman
("All I need to know about Islam I learned on 09/11/01" - Crawdad)
To: dandelion
The only aspect of this Sites' affair is that no one is listening or paying attention.
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posted on
11/17/2004 12:42:46 PM PST
by
Rummyfan
To: dandelion
The first thing I thought of when word of the Sites video was Ernie Pyle. If you read much of Pyle's stuff, he was definitely not a mouthpiece for the "administration" of the time. Military management was one of his favorite targets. But you could NEVER question where his loyalty was when it came to the guys on the ground. Excellent, moving, manly writing. Too bad he isn't emulated more in the MSM.
To: dandelion
Question me this, fairy: How many other businesses/industries do you know that hate their customers so? (No, you can't nominate surgeons who legally get to cut open and do other perverse things to their clients.)
To: dandelion
As far as I'm concerned, "journalist", in addition to being hideously arch (what ever happended to "reporters"?), has become a pejorative term. I have no respect for them.
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posted on
11/17/2004 12:48:01 PM PST
by
clintonh8r
(Get Out The Gloat!!)
To: dandelion
Frankly, I think he is right to write "I am not one of them". That much is obvious form his attitude. However, the part that's missing is that he should then write "but I hope someday to be".
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posted on
11/17/2004 12:53:25 PM PST
by
Little Pig
(Is it time for "Cowboys and Muslims" yet?)
To: finnman69
"FYI, the comment's section of Sites's blog is being heavily deleted."
I went to his blog to say, "Delete this you subhuman snake."
The site is no longer accepting new messages. WAHAHAHAHA!! What a weenie.
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posted on
11/17/2004 12:58:52 PM PST
by
Earthdweller
(US descendant of French Protestants)
To: dandelion
Let us not forget that CNN, in order to keep their Bagdad bureau open repeated refused to publish the gross inhumanities perpetrated by saddam. It wasn't about the truth; it was about access.
These truly are miserable human beings.
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posted on
11/17/2004 1:16:10 PM PST
by
Pietro
To: dandelion
"Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media, for they will steal your HONOR. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoe making and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poor house."
- Mark Twain
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posted on
11/17/2004 1:18:13 PM PST
by
NCSteve
To: eyespysomething
I'm stuned speechless. Have you read this? Kevin Sites is a real piece of work. Maybe the Marine should've shot him next. I'm left wondering if the entire profession isn't lost.
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posted on
11/17/2004 1:23:42 PM PST
by
SittinYonder
(Tancredo and I wanna know what you believe)
To: dandelion
Please don't tell me what my story is about," I say, "It will be about what I report not you."
Maybe the world thinks Americans are arrogant because they think American reporters are arrogant...Hmmmmm
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posted on
11/17/2004 1:25:30 PM PST
by
Edgerunner
(The left ain't right. Hand me that launch pickle...)
To: SittinYonder
Its not entirely lost, not yet.
But its close.
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posted on
11/17/2004 1:26:57 PM PST
by
eyespysomething
(15 days out, and the Dems still don't get it.)
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