The media are helping terrorists

Brookes News ^ | Monday January 24 2005 | Gerard Jackson

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Here is another one:

Analysis: U.S. losing ground in Iraq war ( Knight Ridder newspapers say...)

This time they are cherry picking from data, draWING CONCLUSIONS and hiding behind faulty statistics...regarding military deaths .

[Boot Hill]

The MSM are today's version of the carpetbaggers and Copperheads of the 1860's. Refresh my recollection, what was that they did then, to end that problem?

(My screen name should provide some clue)

--Boot Hill

[weegee]

Media Schadenfreude and Media Shenanigans PING

Associated Press has admitted that it knowingly put terrorist sympathisers on its payroll in Iraq. This is not the first time that the AP has associated itself with pro-terrorists. It also hired Muhammad Daraghmeh to report on Palestinian affairs knowing that she was an agent of the PLO.

This raises a vital question: Is the AP’s treason an isolated incident or has the media in general sided with the enemy? I fear the answer is yes.

[Rudder]

Is the AP’s treason an isolated incident or has the media in general sided with the enemy?

...yes.

The trouble with blogs is that there is poor editing or none at all.

[Redleg Duke]

Just like in Nam!

[PGalt]

Good post. Concrete examples. Ping.

[ForGod'sSake]

This spoils their dreams of a world socialist order.

That's my take also. A strong and sovereign American people behind a strong and sovereign America leading the free world is problematic for the world governor wannabes. Hence, the attacks also on the moral underpinnings of American culture. One and the same, eh?

FGS

[SierraWasp]

"a huge chunk of the media continues to willingly aid and abet terrorism"

But we keep empowering 'em by eagerly posting their tripe right here on FR and getting so excited when they show the slightest tendency to honor any part of rational reality!!!

We'll never nail 'em with treason, so the only thing we can do to 'em is subject 'em to distain and ridicule!!! (or ignore 'em)

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

"The media are helping terrorists".

So are the Democrats.

Democrats - the liberal ones, who predominate in the party - don't give journalism marching orders, they take their orders from journalism.

Thanks for the ping, PGalt.

Why Broadcast Journalism is
Unnecessary and Illegitimate

[Electrowoman]

where did the information on the associated press originate?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Found this:

The Reader's Companion to American History

COPPERHEADS

The Copperheads, or "Peace Democrats," vexed Abraham Lincoln and the Republicans during the Civil War, campaigning against the war as a failure and opposing many military appropriations. The term Copperheads apparently came from the habit of some midwestern, hard-money Democrats of wearing copper pennies around their necks. Like most Democrats who supported the war, the antiwar Copperheads were opposed to the emancipation of the slaves. They were unhappy with the war effort, and reflecting their Jacksonian heritage, they disliked Republican economic policies, especially a national banking system.

The most notorious Copperhead was Clement Vallandigham, an Ohio congressman who gave up his seat to campaign for peace. In 1863, the writ of habeas corpus having been suspended, Gen. Ambrose Burnside had Vallandigham arrested; Lincoln released him, but exiled him into Confederate territory. He made his way north by ship and then across Canada. He ran for governor of Ohio in 1863, but lost, as did many Copperheads in state elections that year, in the wake of northern victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg.

Still, the Copperheads retained some power. With Confederate agents, they subsidized several Democratic papers throughout the war, as well as freeing prisoners and capturing ships. They opposed the Democratic nomination of Gen. George McClellan for president in 1864 because he refused to accept their demands for an immediate peace; but they still had enough standing in the party to force the selection of Ohio Copperhead George Pendleton as the vice-presidential candidate. Their actions lent added credence to the Republican party's postwar use of the "bloody shirt" to charge Democrats with disloyalty.

See also Civil War; Elections: 1864.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

What I know about Boot Hill is from Dodge City....