Posted on 06/06/2006 5:42:05 PM PDT by jimboster
The London Times is getting praise for issuing an apology over falsely captioning an April 2005 picture of fishermen executed at a Haditha, Iraq stadium by insurgents as depicting victims of Marines in the Nov. 19 incident still under investigation--which I reported over the weekend.
But some smears aren't so easy to take back--especially when the image is as searing and damning as the bloody image the Times wrongly attributed to our Marines. Despite the correction, the image has been burned into the public memory. Look at how Chicago Sun Times cartoonist Jack Higgins used that image, wrongly used by the London Times, in a cartoon published today (hat tip: reader Jim O'Toole and Webloggin):
higginssmear.jpg
Is Higgins aware that the image he relied on falsely attributed the terrorists' stadium executions of fishermen to the Nov. 19 incident involving our Marines?
Did he or his editors take any steps to ensure the accuracy of the image Higgins simulated to indict the Marines? Or will Higgins somehow argue that he is not implying that the Marines were the perpetrators of the atrocities in the stadium scene he copied from the AP photo?
Ask them:
E-mail letters@suntimes.com Editorial page editor Steve Huntley: shuntley@suntimes.com Publisher John Cruickshank: jcruickshank@suntimes.com
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No kidding. This makes me unbelievably angry.
So, how do we hold the media accountable?
Ignore them, and like Air America they will wither. Writing to them is probably the worst think you can do, because it gives them some feeling that they are being paid attention to; and you have no chance whatsoever of influencing them.
ML/NJ
You might as well write to al jazeera.
What really ticks me off, what really makes me mad is the fact Higgins condemns Marines who have people shooting at them, trying to blow them up every day. He's ridiculing servicemen who saw a friend of theirs literally blown in half. He's denouncing Marines who have seconds to react. Yet, Higgins had days, weeks, even months to check on the authenticity of the photo he depicted- and he still f**cked up! Higgins makes me sick!
That's a disgusting cartoon. When their time comes for being saved, we will not save them.
Now this cartoonist has "rushed to judgement" and blindly attacked our troops on the word of an enemy "informant"!
ABSOLUTELY correct.
I can not even describe how much disdain I have for the press. They are SHAMEFUL. And that is true no matter how the investigation turns out.
I can't talk about it. It's making me too angry.
Actually, yes we will. That is the difference between us and them.
Not me. Some Americans are the enemy and they are one.
I remember a round table discussion several years ago consisting of media types/reporters and marines. The situtation was a scenario where U.S. Marines were on patrol and an enemy force was about to be ambush them. The enemy force was accompanied by each reporter and the question of each was ...would you warn the marines. Mike Wallace said NO, the story of an ambush was more important.
Yep. They have lost their compass, forgotten the faces of their fathers (Stephen King) -- and now they are simply self-absorbed and lost without any sense of right and wrong. They are like the barbarian, the enemy.
Hey Limeys - can you say Dunkirk?
What ticks me off is that without our military, we would be still paying taxes on our tea to England and paying homage to the Queen. We would not have the freedom we now have. Europe would be in far worse shape, and Japan...who knows, because the nukes (created by the US) changed their fate. Yet, these tin-horn "journalists" and leftwing moonbats feel they must revile, insult, and otherwise denigrate the very group of people who have given them the freedom to do so. They not only kick around the military, they invent "crimes" to accuse them with when none can be found.
I'm angry, and frankly a little dismayed to see even places like Fox jump on the bandwagon, either slightly or whole-hog. It makes me worry about the future of this great country, to see so many lose sight of who we are, what we have, who the enemy is, and why we fight.
We deal in lead.
The crap is backfiring on the hateful liberals and their media who have already over played their hands in this Haditha incident, this time they even did it much faster than Abu Ghraib.
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