Posted on 01/20/2007 12:09:54 PM PST by lowbridge
After reading an article about the Iraq war, I thought: What is taking so long? What is taking so long for the American media to quell all of the "manipulation" and actually report what is going on in the world?
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I am a journalism student. It is refreshing to know that there are still journalists who care more about their readers than the agenda of sinister plotters bent on profiteering from an unjustified conflict while risking the young lives of U.S. soldiers.
Seeking the truth, I recently came upon the Downing Street memos. These are the recorded minutes of a meeting among British Prime Minister Tony Blair, his top aides, President George W. Bush and his top aides. The transcript illustrates how Bush intended to invade Iraq despite whatever intelligence might have disputed the validity of invading.
What boggles my mind is that there has yet to be extensive investigative reporting on these memos and the possible ramifications on the Bush administration itself.
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We are still awaiting a congressional investigation into the memos.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...
"Seven years of College down the drain. Might as well join the #$&!$@ Peace Corps. " -Bluto Blutarsky
A Fix on Downing Street: About that supposed smoking-gun memo.
Downing Street Memo Originals Destroyed
Live Thread: John Conyers' Downing Street Memo Circus, C-SPAN 3, 2:30 p.m. EDT
Memo manipulation (DowningStreet)(Update: see Kerry's Letter to Senate committee)
Hopefully by the time he graduates, Newsday will be defunct.
Snickerr.
It is refreshing to know that there are still journalists who care more about their readers than the agenda of sinister plotters bent on profiteering from an unjustified conflict while risking the young lives of U.S. soldiers.
Guffaw.
The News We (CNN) Kept To Ourselves [must read]
The New York Times ^ | 04/11/03 | EASON JORDAN
Posted on 04/10/2003 9:16:06 PM PDT by Pokey78
ATLANTA — Over the last dozen years I made 13 trips to Baghdad to lobby the government to keep CNN's Baghdad bureau open and to arrange interviews with Iraqi leaders. Each time I visited, I became more distressed by what I saw and heard — awful things that could not be reported because doing so would have jeopardized the lives of Iraqis, particularly those on our Baghdad staff.
"Investigations lagging on bogus reasons for war"
....uh... possibly because there weren't any?
All hail his superior intellect!
Another young mind full of mush. The reason this one's calling for an investigation is that he's too lazy to do it himself.
Wow! That 'Reporter as Neutral Observer' class is really paying off!
My guess is that Newsday goes out and actively recruits these letters/columns from so-called 'ordinary Long Islanders', or makes them up themselves and attaches some fictional name as the author.
Funny, he doesn't tell us if Bin Laddies reasons for the war are bogus. (they ain't.)
"I am a journalism student."
Personally, I think that's too bad. But they are looking for people like you at the New York Times. You'd better hurry, before they go out of business.
bttt
There won't be but a few artificial hearing and investigations because what everyone will learn is that over half the intelligence available derived from the Clinton administration and it sure would be embarrassing for the Rats and MSM.
Journalism student is conservative code word for a person who is a liberal mouth piece, and an iherant liar.
The thing that surprised me during Rathergate was that we didn't see any Democrat "Political Consultants" going on the air and saying, "this is old news, we need to get beyond it and move on". I thought that was a formal rule for all disparaging political news over two days old. Matter of fact, I saw one of those dudes on the telly saying that about "Sandy the Pants" just yesterday. Surely that rule can't just apply to one party.
I can't think of anything that's a better candidate for the "old news, time to move on" category than the issue of how we got into the war.
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