[martin_fierro]

"They're not Americans. They're just journalists."

Quote of the day.

	Media Shenanigans/ Schadenfreude
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[Eric in the Ozarks]

I recall when a Sandinista shoulder fired rocket narrowly missed a plane load of "journalists' on their way into Nicaragua. Ronald Reagan's comment was, "Well...there's a little good in everyone."

[Tamzee]

Thank you for the ping... it was fantastic to see further exposure of both the media snakes in Iraq who failed to warn the Coalition and the snakes Jennings and Wallace stating they would be willing to allow our troops to be ambushed and just film it.

In his book, The Military and the Media, William Kennedy describes this revealing exchange during a military-media symposium

Small correction here... I have the series that includes this panel discussion. It was not simply a military-media symposium, it was a PBS educational series entitled "Ethics in America". Jennings and Wallace clearly flunked.

[BlessedByLiberty]

Once again the Medieval Media proves it has gone beyond distrust of the military, it now openly seethes with utter disdain and contempt.

To the Media soldiers are lower than then whatever species the left champions at the moment.

What a vile, villainous nest of vipers inhabit CBSABCNBCCNNMSNBC!

[Criminal Number 18F]

"They're not Americans. They're just journalists."

The colonel's sentiments are mine, exactly. If I heal enough to do another tour, I wouldn't distinguish news reporters from other enemy forces. They picked their side, let them live with it. Or not live, as the case may be.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[GOPJ]

Prizes are the problem. Prize mentality allowed a photographer to wait for a soldier's death to get the great picture.

Instead of newspapers, see it as a Toaster Factory problem. A toaster factory that's adopted the prize mentality.

Toaster Prizes for best design, most interesting innovation, and speed to the market with any innovative change are called Pewletzzers.... In time safe usable toasters lose to "fashion toast strategies". Winning becomes all. An unintended consequence -- toaster fires becomes common. Safe wasn't a prize category. Design is an inner industry hit.

The public complaines and the Toaster Organization circles the wagons. The "crazies" didn't understand. They were such flyover types.

The public, tired of unusual toasters that don't work state giving up toast. Toaster organizations blame the decline on sales on small toast numbers and continued passing out award winning prized for bigger and stranger toaster designs. ( and ones the public doesn't like - but what do they know)?

Once, an executive was overheard explaining toaster ethics - that if a perfect toaster caused a home to burn down - it didn't diminish the value of the design.