[mattdono]

Well, I don't disagree with that.

However, I do think that it is interesting (in fact, necessary) to point out that the "domestic ones" seem to include all too many in the American media.

If there job is to cover the news, then cover it...cover all of it. Cover of it in its excruciating detail.

Don't pick and choose which so-called "attrocities" to cover. Don't pick and choose only the "attrocities" that fit the detractor's agenda and pay scant attention to attrocities that don't.

If the media wants to start throwing the t-word around, then let's have some context of what torture really is.

Torture is not making someone get naked and do a naked human pyramid. Torture is not humiliating someone.

Torture is forcing a man to watch his wife and 8-year old daughter be gang raped, then gouging his eyes out to ensure that was the last thing he ever saw.

Torture is cutting someone's tongue out because you didn't like what they said.

Torture is putting someone into a wood chipper, feet first and slow, just to make sure that they get the full impact of their impending death.

I agree that we should set a high bar, and, as Americans, we do.

But, someone, somewhere has to provide the truth. And, the truth is that while what these soldiers did was heinous and deserves punishment (which they will be getting, by the way), it doesn't even compare to what true torture is.

The American media won't show that. Why? Because it doesn't fit their agenda, plain and simple.

Well, I'm not going to take it anymore.

So, while your explanation is correct and your assessment is accurate, I simply reject the premise that "that's how it has to be". So, I will actively work on exposing the American media for being friends of our enemies.

[mtntop3]

Too many in the media are ashamed of their own affluence and, in addition, distinctly lack any selfless contribution by themselves to America. Denigrating their own country and those in its service serves to cover up their low self-esteem.(Part of their making a living, after all, is oftentimes parasitically existing off the misfortunes of others.)

By pointing to the sins of America, they delude themselves into thinking they are "so sensitive and intelligent" that they have somehow risen above their own nothingness.

There is something else: when persons, or groups of them, no longer believe in God, they find someone or something else as replacement. It can be materialism. It usually includes themselves (I, me, and my) in combination with varying portions, in the liberal media, of such estimables as Marx, Che Guevara, or/and Hugh Hefner.

So in this way, the media merely reflects a significant section of our society and of the western world.

Would that service in the military or Peace Corps be indeed a significant prerequisite for employment in our media.