[Txsleuth]

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.

[ExcursionGuy84]

"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...

[Redbob]

Instructors shipped in from the New York Times - after a brief "re-education" period in Guantanamo!

[Lakeshark]

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.

[Pikachu_Dad]

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.

[roses of sharon]

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.

[Firefox1]

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.

[crazyhorse691]

Who's supposed to be teaching Iraqis journalistic ethics -- us or al-Zarqawi?

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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.

[txroadkill]

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???

[Just A Nobody]

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.

[oldbrowser]

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 ?

[msnimje]

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?

[Fielding]

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!

[Not A Snowbird]

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.

[FlingWingFlyer]

The MSM's new motto:

IF IT AIN'T NEGATIVE AND ANTI-AMERICAN/MILITARY, WE DON'T WANT TO HEAR IT!

[polymuser]

Maybe they're jealous, realizing they've missed an income source by not making the DNC pay all these years.

[PhilipFreneau]

>>>The Los Angeles Times reported this week that U.S. military officials are paying Iraqi newspapers to run canned, favorable "stories" that praise the work of U.S. and Iraqi troops<<<

However, it is okay to pay for stories that are unfavorable to the U.S. and Iraqi troops. Our media and newspapers do that all the time.

[Ninian Dryhope]

"U.S. military officials are paying Iraqi newspapers to run canned, favorable "stories" that praise the work of U.S. and Iraqi troops, laud the rebuilding efforts and denounce the insurgents."

Bull, there is nothing fake about the news stories, but there is plenty that is fake about this editorial. If the culture over there is that one has to grease a few palms in order to get the truth out, so be it. When in Rome, do as the Romans.

[Ninian Dryhope]

Who gives a damn what Richard Edelman thinks?

[highlander_UW]

It's pretty funny that the MSM is concerned about balanced coverage of Iraq. So they're upset that the US might have been providing positive stories to Iraqi news? Where did they think the Iraqis were going to get it...the MSM...Al Jazeera?