Thanks for the link.
Interesting piece by Coulter which it is hard to disagree with, but even she concedes that it is not entirely fair to blame Newsweek for the behaviour of the islamic savages.
I don't disagree that the majority of the MSM is fairly useless and an immoral waste. The reporting tends to be so infected with liberalism and PC'ism that it is downright nausating. You should try to read the Scandinavian press. It is far worse even, yet our own CAIR equivalents rants and raves about islamophobia and racism in our media, and the media gently obliges them. Yet one of the major newspapers in Norway recently called Ann Coulter the wicket hag of the American right. It's safe to attack in that direction...
As for wartime censorship...
Sure. Don't let the enemy know that B-52 bombers are heading in their direction. But, do not censor an article making fun of moustaches because it might enrage the fuhrer.
I guess what worries me is that when a fairly useless article about Koran and toilets, whatever its editorial merits, causes global mayhem, that the focus is put on Newsweeks editorial practices and not on the whacky reaction of the islamic savages. The scary part though, is that I fear the islamic reaction is not so "wacky" afterall, and that it is part of a calculated strategy.
A strategy that seems to be rather succesful.
Afterall it is time proven.
Cheers.
Strategy by whom? They are the same people who have bloodletting parades and believe the likes of Baghdad Bob. Our wonderfully principled and responsible media know this and use it as a means of controlling or at least 'inspiring' events. It used to be highly effective but now they get called on it and >gasp< even have to issue a (half-hearted) retraction.
I don't blame Newsweek for the behavior of the savages.
Nevertheless, this is a different type of war, but a war nonetheless. One of this enemies' major tools is propaganda - true or faulty - that they use to build their "weapons" in the form of suicide bombers and fanatacism.
Our military and civilian leadership has gone to extraordinary lengths to deny the enemy "true propaganda", particularly in this case. We have done it systematically and done it pretty done well. The irresponsibility (best case) of Newsweek REVERSED years of work.
The traitorous tendencies of these folks must be checked. Whether CBS trying to undercut the Bush presidency in the Guard FRAUDcase, the NYSlimes' daily wilfull misrepresentation of the WoT, CNN's wilfully hiding Hussein's atrocities "to maintain access", the UN's shredding of documents pertaining to Oil-for-Food and only ONE MSM outlet the Wall Street Journal covering this clear reason France/ Germany/ Russia supported Hussein, Boston Globe publishing pictures from a porn site claiming they were Americans abusing prisoners --- all of these examples and many other stories told and that the Old Media refuse to tell --- these MSM outlets are cleaving to the enemy --- knowingly or unknowingly.
Those who have knowledge and concern for the big picture are not resident in the newsrooms. They apparently don't care, or don't know, how crucial these factors are to our winning the War of this Century. Either way they have been behaving irresponsibly at worst, and ignorantly at best.
If "irresponsibly" is the reason: FORCING Censorship is the answer.
If "ignorantly" is the reason: even THEY will agree that censorship is the answer.