Thank you for civilized and thoughtful comments.
This thread is an example of how low FR has sunk. Sounds more and more like DU.
My first thought was not that FR sounds like DU in this thread.
My first thought was that FR sounds nearly universally what our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan say about the media when I have had the opportunity to speak with them personally.
The difference is that the military personnel are much more professional and restrained in their oratory, but the tone of their voice, the looks in their eyes and their facial expressions betray their anger, puzzlement and sadness.
While I do not advocate the infliction of physical harm on members of the media in general, the media deserves every ounce of excoriation that is heaped on it by people who care about what happens to this country.
That last condition de facto removes the media from that category of people.
U.S. raids Baghdad slum; 26 Iraqis die (Article by...Hamid Ahmed...gee...who is HE?)
Here is an excerpt:
"At about 4 a.m., a big American convoy with tanks came and began to open fire on houses — bombing them," said Basheer Ahmed, who lives in Sadr City's Habibiya district. "What did we do? We didn't even retaliate — there was no resistance."
This article is completely slanted...the insinuation and accusation that we just sent tanks in...unprovoked and began blowing holes in the walls of the houses of innocent, impoverished Iraqis as their children slept in their beds. Sure, they have the US spokesmen saying it was a legitimate firefight and so on, but one can be an uneducated dunce and figure out instantly what is being said in this article.
You really don't understand the concept of black humor, do you.
It helps people vent and carry on when news is tragic, disasterous or frightening. This natural instinct is as old as mankind.
Uptight, holier-than-thou people don't like black humor one bit.
Leni
Anyone who thinks the press has acted honorably reporting this war belongs over at DU.
I wouldn’t blame you if you never came back.