LOL....Cump was no fan of the press...
Posted on 06/30/2007 6:07:08 AM PDT by period end of story
BRUSSELS, Belgium - One hundred journalists and other news media workers died on the job in the first six months of the year, putting 2007 on the path to becoming the deadliest year for the news business, the International News Safety Institute said Friday.
Iraq has been the most dangerous country for journalists in recent years, and the group said the 100-mark was reached with a death there Tuesday — the killing of Hamed Sarha, a 30-year veteran of the Iraqi national news agency by unidentified gunmen.
According to statistics compiled by the Brussels-based group, 83 journalists and 17 other media professionals died around the globe covering news stories between Jan. 1 and June 26, with 72 of them slain.
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Uptight, holier-than-thou people don't like black humor one bit.
Those types would hate to hear us over here. The gallows humor is thick. It is woven into our common conversations.
Those without the ability to "get" or appreciate black humor do not last here. I've seen it - they get easily freaked and end up going home.
Such will power I’m very impressed.
Too bad you see politeness and good manners as “uptight and holier-than-thou.”
Black humor is supposed to be funny. The crass comments on this thread are not.
I live among conservative people who know how to laugh and who live with good cheer. They would never say these hateful things.
A legitimate philosophy or point-of-view that can’t be stated with civility diminishes the argument.
And, on a personal level, I simply don’t want to be associated with rudeness.
Apples and oranges...
At AG we pestered and embarassed non-uniformed combatants and murderers. At My Lai we killed non-combatant civilians.
If your liberal "moral equivalence" blinds you to that difference, please tell me where you practice "journalism" -- and I'll avoid it like the plague!
LOL....Cump was no fan of the press...
“If your liberal “moral equivalence” blinds you to that difference, please tell me where you practice “journalism” — and I’ll avoid it like the plague!”
Babble.
The Geneva Convention does not apply to disguised (non-uniformed) combatants; they are to be treated as spies (or murderers — if engaged in combat when caught).
So you’re arguing that what took place at AG was okay?
There had to be laws or regulations that were violated or why else were careers destroyed over it.
I maintain the effect of My Lay and AG were the same in the eyes of the world in general and the American people in particular. That’s not because of journalism. It’s because collectively people make up their minds.
In neither case - ML or AG - did it have to happen.
Well.... thats a good start..
Agreed. And I am proud of neither one.
OTOH, absent the constant, month-long drum-beating by the enemedia, the American people would never have condidered hazing of terrorists to be morally equivalent to beheadings of captive journalists or the slaughter of non-combatants.
The blood be upon the hands of (you) "journalists" (aka "enemy propagandists")...
“The blood be upon the hands of (you) . . .”
Ya know what? Screw you. I never said they were equivalent, and to say that Americans see AG and “beheadings” as morally the same, is elitist. I said the effect on the American people of My Lai and AG were the same. People can figure out what is right and wrong without you or anyone else interpreting for them.
Journalists have no more impact on the collective thinking of Americans than Radio Talk Show hosts do. To say journalists are “enemy propagandists” is to say Americans are mind numbed robots. I have more trust in the American people than that. Obviously, as an elitist, you don’t.
It is not the point whether or not I accept it at face value, look for other sources or simply discount it.
The point is that this is a supposedly “objective” “news” object on Yahoo.com from the Associated Press which is viewed as reliable by millions of people around the world.
They didn’t just make an equivalence between some guy who no one knows anything about (a resident of Sadr City, no less, as you know a notorious hotbed of virulent anti-American sentiment) accusing the US forces of indiscriminate use of force, and a US spokesman who is getting the facts from our personnel in the area.
They gave that person the voice of fact, and put the American forces in a position to have to defend those charges.
THAT is what I have an issue with. And THAT is the template that the media has shown through its ACTIONS, not my opinion, that it will apply to any situation.
I am surprised that they could even find 100 “Journalists” in 2007.
lol.
There, I've spotted you the first two words.
I suppose there are a few good journalist somewhere. They are as rare as an honest lawyer. Come to think of it, I can’t name a honest lawyer.
Heya Fish Hawk...:)
I saw you lurking around here so I thought I’d throw in my two cents. LOL
Yeh, Thompson’s war was my war, too. I remember all about the reporting on My Lai and Calley, etal-shiite happens. Sounds like you might have a case of PTSD over something you read about in our glorious, unbiased press.
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