The same Time Magazine that had rewarded Michael Moore's inendiary nonesense with a cover story.
Posted on 08/28/2004 8:19:31 AM PDT by veronica
Before the 2000 election, I found it very difficult to accumulate enough information about the candidates from TV and newspapers. Finally, I found out that C-Span was broadcasting the entire speeches late at night and early in the morning. A long article in the New Yorker clinched it for me.
There is a conflict of interest here, because media outlets stand to profit from political ads which become more necessary when coverage is light. That does not mean I would favor "free time" for politicians, whatever that might mean.
In the interest of accuracy, let's recount this situation:
The original citation for the Silver Star award was signed by Adm. Elmo Zumwalt. A second citation for the same incident, with changed wording, was signed by a later Admiral.
The citation in question signed by John Lehman was evidently a request for a replacement medal for the awarded Silver Star. It's wording was somewhat altered. Since Lehman was Secretary of the Navy under Reagan (1981 - 1987, IIRC), he was far removed in time from the original award.
The puzzling aspect is why the same award had three separate citations, one 16 years after the incident in question.
Most sheeple absorb their total news content from intentionally misleading soundbites and headlines, as they flip from "Bachelorette Slut Golddiggers!" to "Hot Chicks Sleeping Around in NY!"
bump!!!!
The same Time Magazine that had rewarded Michael Moore's inendiary nonesense with a cover story.
It's good to see the major news media outlets exposed for the biased ideologues that they are. They suppress viewpoints they don't enjoy, or attempt to discredit opinions that don't advance "progressive" causes, usually by rather odious techniques. Hollywood often buttresses these views, along with certain segments of academia.
Thankfully, millions of citizens to day get their news straight and unadulterated from the source(s) without editorial filtering, news blackouts and similar nonsense. The quality and level of writing in print journalism has dropped in recent years. It is true that several "amateurs" have thoroughly outclassed the hidebound major outlets. Only In America.
I am sure your facts are right, but Lehman recounts it as true. It seems when Kerry was getting his stuff together, he wanted to be sure he wouldn't be questioned about anything. He forgot about the two and a half million men involved in the same war.
But now as we know from the MSM the public has tired of refighting Vietnam and the story has run its course. :^)
This needs to be amended a bit.
The combination of talk radio, a publishing house, blogs, and Fox News has given freedom-loving Americans a voice independent of the Socialists.
This has been discussed at length on Free Republic many times:
REGARDLESS of what medals were thrown away, or whose medals (or ribbons) were thrown away, or whether it was medals or ribbons at all that were thrown away; Lehman signed (sometime in the mid-late 80's) NEW CITATIONS awarding medals. There NEVER was ANY reason to CHANGE a citation (the "letter" awarding a medal, to ever, ever get "new medals/ribbons" or anything else. The "award" described in the citation does NOT change the "words" used in the citation describing the action UNLESS "somebody of power and influence" (like a new Senator from Massachusetts!) comes in the somebody's office and demands "new words" be written. Except now, Lehman says he didn't sign Kerry's citation at all!
Awesome article. Liberal media bias exposed.
"...when so much unsubstantiated or even false information can reach the public..."
That's what really frosts them. They don't have absolute control over what the public hears anymore.
"I don't think newspapers can be the gatekeepers anymore--to say this is wrong and we will ignore it. Now we have to say this is wrong and here is why."
Yeah, it's a lot harder when you have to support your stupid positions with facts, isn't it? How dare people not just take your word for it anymore! < /sarcasm > Maybe it's that you've lost all credibility, ya think?
The American MSM makes al Jazeera look fair and balanced.
Depends on what the meaning of "is" is.
Re: Post #12
That sudden rush of MSM coverage was totally orchestrated by the Kerry Campaign. The Washington Post, NY Times and Salon.com illegal 527's all jumped in Kerry's bed together on one infamous day (to all military vets). The Dems had the whole strategy planned to immediately use those stories to file false charges against Bush and blow oxygen on the media arson. Luckily for democracy there was a massive blowback.
If a reporter wants to be brave and rat out his peers it would be a major media scandal (sort of like that Quiz Show scandal in the 50's or whatever).
It is the job of these dumb@$$es to REPORT the news, not MANAGE the news. The only difference between these media whores and the self-appointed loud-mouthed celebrity political advisors is that one group is made up of educated fools and the other of high school and college dropouts.
Maybe he was referring to the intellectual peak of the average msm journalist.
Excellent article. This is the tastiest morsel I've had in a week of very tasty morsels.
It is what the mainstream has chosen not to report, or to report in a biased manner that has been their undoing.
Now when people watch them, the people are armed with background information and are begining to notice what is left out, smeared, plastered with sarcastic innuendo and are starting to question the credibility of the liberal left that has controlled our media for SO LONG.
A bunch of these hard core mainstream media folks were a PART of kerry's intense trashing of our military-they helped him do it because of their own belief systems and now, with deep anger, are watching America wake up to their propaganda - or editing OUT of the full story.
It has been interesting.
These old news grunts still believe they control all of us...it is hard to give up that power. So they battle hating the story, knowing they were a PART of causing our failure in Vietnam and knowing the protesters in the streets of NY are a part of who they are and who they formed through their constand inability to tell us the full story. Which is why we never get to hear of the immense successes in Afganistan and Iraq. These people dispise all that makes America, a miracle.
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