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Iraq War: Faking the news
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER ^
| December 2, 2005
| SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER EDITORIAL BOARD
Posted on 12/01/2005 7:40:56 PM PST by Former Military Chick
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To: Former Military Chick
Nah...nothing wrong here...
In fact, I think that Ken Mehlman may have to start doing that here...all we get here is leftist propaganda, also.
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posted on
12/01/2005 7:44:19 PM PST
by
Txsleuth
(9/11NEVER FORGET-NEVER SURRENDER, Sam Johnson, a REAL hero!)
To: Former Military Chick
"The first casualty when war comes is truth."
And to those lost in the darkness of The FALL...TRUTH is a Light too unbearable for their sinful, depraved state of being...
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posted on
12/01/2005 7:44:41 PM PST
by
ExcursionGuy84
("Jesus, Your Love takes my breath away.")
To: ExcursionGuy84
If we are planting stories in the Arab press, all I can say is about time!
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posted on
12/01/2005 7:46:19 PM PST
by
csmusaret
(Urban Sprawl is an oxymoron)
To: Former Military Chick
Instructors shipped in from the New York Times - after a brief "re-education" period in Guantanamo!
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posted on
12/01/2005 7:46:30 PM PST
by
Redbob
To: Txsleuth
IF this is what it takes to get FACTUAL information about the good going on in Iraq, then SO BE IT!!!!!!
To: Former Military Chick
I'd take news from the military any day than some snivveling Seattle paper trying to suck up to the "news" (read DNC talking points) propagated by the New York Times.
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posted on
12/01/2005 7:47:11 PM PST
by
Lakeshark
(Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
To: Former Military Chick
Sounds like sour grapes that his side is not on his particular gravy train...
"Here's a journalism lesson: If they're buying fake news, the real news must be really bad."
Hmmm. Why would that have to be true? The democrats distribute fake news over here all the time... So perhaps it is true.
To: Former Military Chick
Hilarious, now the conspirazoids are mad that we are trying to save lives, while their propaganda is trying to get soldiers killed?
I'll take my US soldier's propaganda anyday!
They can have OBL and Mr.Z, they deserve each other.
To: Former Military Chick
It's called trying to win the war....or psy-ops. You see, a winning strategy includes more than just shooting. If the MSM was out there covering some of the good stuff going on, instead of exposing psy-ops operations, perhaps we wouldn't need the psy-ops in the first place.
The MSM biggest fear isn't that this war is being lost and the White House isn't admitting it. Their biggest fear is that it will be won and a peaceful democracy emerges in Iraq. If this happens, the MSM will have to eat so much crow, there won't be enough ketchup to go around. If this was my fear, I'd be exposing our tactics to the enemy as best i could, too.
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posted on
12/01/2005 7:48:35 PM PST
by
Firefox1
To: Former Military Chick
Who's supposed to be teaching Iraqis journalistic ethics -- us or al-Zarqawi?
What a maroonic statement for a card carrying member of the MSM to allow to ooze out of his mouth. Journalistic ethics indeed!
It's like Clintoon lecturing on fidelity.
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posted on
12/01/2005 7:48:36 PM PST
by
crazyhorse691
(Diplomacy doesn't work when seagulls rain on your parade. A shotgun and umbrella does.)
To: Former Military Chick
LOL... isn't having the US MSM lecture about journalist ethics kind of like having a crack head lecture you about having a glass of wine with diner???
To: Former Military Chick
Who gives a rip. If they have to pay to have REAL news stories printed, SO WHAT!
Much better than having to read the America hating, race baiting, anti-military, hostile, hysterical communist bilge we are fed here.
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posted on
12/01/2005 7:51:23 PM PST
by
Just A Nobody
(I - LOVE - my attitude problem! WBB lives on. Beware the Enemedia.)
To: Former Military Chick
Richard Edelman, CEO of the Edelman public relations firm, rips the practice as "utterly unacceptable behavior" and told the Poynter Institute that it is "a perversion of our business, an intentional blurring of a clear demarcation between paid and earned media." Who the hell is this guy ? The Journalism police ?
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posted on
12/01/2005 7:52:29 PM PST
by
oldbrowser
(The U.S. Senate is a quagmire.)
To: Former Military Chick
Too bad the "editorial Board" at this paper is not interested in doing a little, what is the word....uh, research!
The pentagon is paying for space in papers to print editorials written by soldiers.
Does the Seattle Post Intelligencer print editorials from outside sources for free?
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posted on
12/01/2005 7:52:51 PM PST
by
msnimje
(Bob Woodward is the GRINCH who stole Fitzmas............Cindy Lou (sheehan) WHO?)
To: Former Military Chick
Please do a google news search for the term "Others have died for my freedom". This was part of the Presidents Anapolis speech. Next add "+ Los Angeles Times". Then try "+ Reuters." Then "+ AP".
These bastards will not report the text of the Presidents speech. But they report everything that Cindy Sheehan says.
They are not journalists. They are not Americans. They are not civilized. They talk like used car salesmen.
Yikes!! I think they've made me mad!
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posted on
12/01/2005 7:53:15 PM PST
by
Fielding
( "OTHERS HAVE DIED FOR MY FREEDOM. NOW THIS IS MY MARK." "Cpl. Jeffrey B. Starr")
To: Former Military Chick
Here's a journalism lesson: If they're buying fake news, the real news must be really bad. The Editorial Board has hit a new low. They conveniently fail to mention that the stories were TRUE.
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posted on
12/01/2005 7:54:42 PM PST
by
Not A Snowbird
(Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
To: Justanobody
Did you notice that it wasn't reported that the stories being paid for were false. Hmmm. That is not a minor detail. Does this guy know anything about invetigative reporting? Where did this guy go to school, the Mary Mapes school of journalism?!
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posted on
12/01/2005 7:55:25 PM PST
by
Firefox1
To: csmusaret
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posted on
12/01/2005 8:05:21 PM PST
by
ExcursionGuy84
("Jesus, Your Love takes my breath away.")
To: Former Military Chick
The MSM's new motto:
IF IT AIN'T NEGATIVE AND ANTI-AMERICAN/MILITARY, WE DON'T WANT TO HEAR IT!
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posted on
12/01/2005 8:09:54 PM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(It's no coincidence that the Democrat mascot is a jackass.)
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