To: lelio
"What about pentagon officials trying to se the record straight then? They didn't go out of their way to say that this heroic figure story was fabricated. "
Is it their job to read every newspaper account and then have a press conference to correct all the wrong stories? I don't think so. I *think* they have more important things to do.
34 posted on
11/07/2003 8:08:58 AM PST by
honeygrl
(Surgeon General's Warning: This FReeper hasn't slept through the night in over a year.)
To: honeygrl
Is it their job to read every newspaper account and then have a press conference to correct all the wrong stories? I don't think so. I *think* they have more important things to do.No it's not their job to read every news story. However, this was not some remote obscure story. It is a well known story, shown on television through night scope. You would have to be hiding under a rock not to know it.
It made for good PR and the military let it stand.
To: honeygrl
Is it their job to read every newspaper account and then have a press conference to correct all the wrong stories? I don't think so.Actually, yes, that is pretty much exactly the job of the Army's public affairs and press offices. Maybe not all stories, but one as major as they played this one at the time, damn right they better be on it. (Vietnam Lesson #254)
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