Doesn't anyone follow rules anymore?
(shaking head in dismay)
Posted on 05/20/2005 4:13:36 AM PDT by Convert from ECUSA
If you want an earful, ask an American soldier how he feels about our news media. You will invariably hear an outpouring of dismay and outrage over antagonistic and reckless reporting. I have stacks of letters and e-mails from soldiers and their families sharing those frustrations. During the Vietnam War, those sentiments would get packed away -- private hurts to be silently borne for decades. But today the Internet allows front-line soldiers to disseminate their views -- breaking through the major media's entrenched, antimilitary bias -- in unprecedented ways. In the wake of Newsweek's publication of its unsourced, mayhem-inducing and now retracted item about Koran desecration by U.S. military interrogators at Guantanamo Bay, a sergeant in Saudi Arabia immediately responded on a blog called The Anchoress (theanchoressonline.com): "I have placed my life and the life of my fellow soldiers in danger in order to achieve a measure of the freedoms we enjoy at home for the Iraqi and Afghani people. As soldiers, we all understand that we may be asked to participate in wars (actions) that we (or our countrymen) don't agree with. The irresponsible journalism being practiced by organizations such as Newsweek, however,[is] just inexcusable. At this point, because of their actions and failure to follow up on a claim of that magnitude, they've set the process back in Afghanistan immensely. ... "I don't regret serving my country, not one bit, but to have everything I'm doing here undermined by irresponsible journalists leaves me disgusted and disappointed." Military bloggers across the Web this week echoed the sergeant's disgust with American journalism. And it's not just Newsweek.
(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
Thank goodness the New York Times is helping to heal the wounds by publishing a feel good, slice-of-life story about how American soldiers torture prisoners to death in Afghanistan.
It isnt only soldiers who have had a bellyfull of American media, What needs to be done is to stop buying their pap cancel all subscriptions, unfortunately I cant because I dont have one.
"by" not "my" - that's what I get for typing before finishing my coffee!
Doesn't anyone follow rules anymore?
(shaking head in dismay)
Maybe they ( MSM ) like seeing him in his underwear
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