Posted on 05/13/2005 10:24:30 AM PDT by Pikamax
Yesterday, we wrote about how the war in Iraq does not dominate America's media the way it might. As can happen with The Note, we didn't explain ourselves well enough. What we meant simply was that the story does not get covered in certain media quarters commensurate with its importance.
But we should have made two other points clear. First, there ARE news organizations in America (such as, we say proudly, our own ABC News) that do cover Iraq day in and day out. Second, in addition to our ongoing gratitude to the troops, everyone in this country owes a huge personal and professional debt of thanks to those journalists from all news organizations who are willing to risk their lives every day to cover this important story.
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So we should thank the MSM for receiving tipoffs from the terrorists so they can have their pictures taken after attacking American troops? Am I the ONLY one who remembers how the AP would always be at just the right place at the right time?
Sorry, guys: no thanks for your blatent siding with our enemies.
IMHO, the journalists are responsible for the loss of coaltion lives and no thanks are due. Rather they are due condemnation.
"I'm the only one who thinks this comes off as smary?"
Did you mean scary or smarmy? Either way, I agree with you.
The news journalists that are covering the war are getting paid how much to do so? As opposed to the amount that our GIs are getting paid? They take how much fire as opposed to our GIs? Seems to me that if a journalist gets tired of being over there, he can just leave, as opposed to the GIs that are over there. A huge debt of thanks? I wouldn't cross the street to thank a journalist.
Smarmy? No. Arrogant as hell? Absolutely.
Yes, it IS smarmy. It is also stupid and condescending.
Ditto......excellent point.
The sacrifice and work that the troops are doing in Iraq transcends and overshadows what the so called MSM is doing like the Empire State Building overshadows and dwarfs a disease infected brothel IMHO.
That is speaking collectively and not individually because there are a few (very few) dedicated American journalists who have not been pimped out and corrupted by the adulterating influence of the MSM and their liberal/leftist/marxist and umAmerican views. Those few do deserve our thanks...but still not to the same degree that the vast majority of the soldiers themselves do..
To risk their lives in skewing the reporting and success of the war in such a way as to never benefit President Bush or credit our American military for their overwhelming success.
Yes, it is smarmy. Let's not forget to thank these journalists for putting their lives on the line for the better good of the lamestream media agenda.
"You little ignorant savages out in fly-over country don't seem to be aware of how much you owe those of us the News business. Write to us and thank us."
BULLSH*T
Iraq is journaism's Vietnam.
Every new reprter who wants to advance, or mid career jornalist that wants a better job is scrambling to find a way to Iraq so they can "punch their ticket" to advance their careers.
McNamara's Pentagon was fixated on a body count in Vietnam. Today it's the media and the number they like to hype is dead AMERICANS.
McNamara's Pentagon deliberately overstated the body count, as does today's media. A good 25% of the number they quote includes people who died from cancer in Rota, Spain. Because the doctors discovered it in Iraq, the body count fixated, body count hyping media counts it.
The Note is required daily reading for all DU types. As slanted as it gets.
I support the troops not the journalists who would happily stand by watching any of us bleed out and die so that they could get pictures of it for their lead story that night. Sorry ABC.
Thanks Newsweek.
Add Michael Isikoff to al Qaida's friends, who IS responsible for slamming the US & the several killings in Afganistan.
F the media
I'm not sure I can think of any real exceptions in the MSM. Only Fox has a few -- Ollie and a few others including what's his name, the police commissioner's boy.
heh heh. Didn't he lose something while he was over there? heh heh. Left them a little souvenir, if you know what I mean, heh heh, signed, Larry King.
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