American news media: little courage and little honesty

http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/dennisprager/2006/02/14/186328.html ^ | Dennis Prager

[mal]

American news media have suffered in recent years. Thanks to the Internet and talk radio, millions of Americans have ceased relying on The New York Times and CNN for their written and televised news. But it is difficult to recall a greater blow to the credibility of American news media than their near-universal refusal to publish the Mohammed cartoons originally published in a Danish newspaper that have brought about worldwide Muslim protests.

This loss of credibility owes to two factors: dishonesty and cowardice.

Everyone and his mother knows why the networks and the print journals haven't shown the cartoons -- they fear Muslims blowing up their buildings and stabbing their editors to death. The only people who deny this are the news media. They all claim that they won't show the cartoons because of sensitivity to Muslim feelings.

[kajingawd]

unfortunately, i kinda want us to be hit again...maybe that'll finally wake us up...

[Captainpaintball]

Allllllllllllllllllllll-rrrrrrrrrrrrrighty!!!!!!! Dennis Prager BUMP for clarity!

[Graybeard58]

unfortunately, i kinda want us to be hit again...maybe that'll finally wake us up

You mean of course, as long as it's not your house that's hit.

[sageb1]

I'd prefer something a bit less destructive - like finding a cache in a basement, warehouse, or tunnel that could be linked to a mosque.

[Just Lori]

unfortunately, i kinda want us to be hit again...maybe that'll finally wake us up...

So then you won't mind if it happens in YOUR neighborhood, right?

[kajingawd]

That's a good question...i'm not sure how to answer that.


If that's what it takes to bring the world together to finally rid the scum of this earth...then yes, i'd gladly give my home and life for the whole...

[Jeff Chandler]

unfortunately, i kinda want us to be hit again

Are you out of your frigging mind?!!!!!

[kajingawd]

no

[VOA]

The only people who deny this are the news media.

But they don't deny it to their friends.
The operator of the trade journal "Editor And Publisher" said that
virtually all of his industry contacts said that the real reason they
weren't printing "THE CARTOONS" is that they feared violence.

I saw/heard this on FOX News Channel last week.

[Chunga]

unfortunately, i kinda want us to be hit again...maybe that'll finally wake us up...

It won't wake up the people who die when we get "hit again," you jerk!

You're "kinda wanting" more death and destruction upon my country at the hands of terrorists?

What a vile, disgusting thing to hope for. If I say anything else I'll be kicked off this board.

[Jeff Chandler]

unfortunately, i kinda want us to be hit again

>>Are you out of your frigging mind?!!!!<<

no

Then I'll assume that you typed without thinking.

[roses of sharon]

I suspect they really did not want to give their "friends" in the Islamic cult community more excuses to riot.

You see their fear is the loss of the sympathetic character they have carefully fictionalized of the terrorists.

The MSM have spent 3 years inciting violence against our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

[Northern Alliance]

unfortunately, i kinda want us to be hit again...maybe that'll finally wake us up.

Not the MSM. They got too much invested now in "Everything is Bush's fault'. They will never wake up

[Just Lori]

....i'd gladly give my home and life for the whole...

Well, you're volunteering thousands of others who would most likely prefer to pass on dying right now.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Prager's articles are always bumpable.

[kajingawd]

we can find all the cache's we want...the media will still spin the results of any find...almost daring the terrorists to do better...like they are doing right now.

We can't win the hearts of the world...people are scared, cowards...they'd rather appease...more you appease, more you leave yourself open and at the same time you're given a false sense of security.

They( terrorists/Muslims ) are trying to bully the world right now...and they are winning.

So what else is it going to take to rise up against this shyte? Something is coming, and it ain't good...but it's needed...to, imho, finally rid the world of this scum.

[oyez]

When it comes to confronting real evil, however, the news media are Mickey Mouse.

Between the milk toast media and the Democrats who are doing anything to insure failure with WOT the situation is becoming grim.

[kajingawd]

I'm sorry, but if we're ready to fight someone like those freaks in the near future, we'll need a little bit more fire...

See them go?...a frickin cartoon, and look at them go.

What will it take to fight these animals on a global scale?

[CyberAnt]

But the cowardice media never tires of Bush-bashing cartoons along with Jewish and Christians next in line.