WHY IS WAR SO FAR AWAY?

New York Post ^ | September 23, 2007 | Phil Mushnick

[ConservativeStatement]

I'm not one of those TV watchers (or newspaper columnists) who anticipates and then identifies political bias in every report from Iraq.

All wars are hell, thus a report on the number of American combat deaths, wounded and traumatized doesn't necessarily strike me as establishing or lending itself to a network's anti-war political agenda, real or imagined.

And an upbeat report about the capture or destruction of enemy forces responsible for indiscriminate terror and carnage - the eradication of an IED operation along Iraqi roads, for example - doesn't necessarily provide me evidence of a network's political support for the war.

But some reports are so fundamentally lacking in fundamental logic that you can only pause - screech to a stop, actually - to wonder, "What the heck was that?" Why was it assigned, produced and then presented, if not to serve a political end?

Last Saturday, "NBC's Nightly News" included correspondent Martin Savidge's report about an American soldier who was home from Iraq, readying for his third deployment. The soldier was seen with his wife and young children when the segment drove directly into the intersection of No Kidding and You Don't Say.

[MNJohnnie]

Wonder why NBC doesn’t give people like let Vets for Freedom equal time if the so called “news media” is so objective?

http://www.vetsforfreedom.org/

[Old Sarge]

a report on the number of American combat deaths, wounded and traumatized doesn't necessarily strike me as establishing or lending itself to a network's anti-war political agenda, real or imagined.

But the constant drumbeaten top-and-bottom-of-the-hour above-the-fold trumpeting is calculated to do the job.

[ConservativeStatement]

Mushnick is the sports media critic in the New York Post and generally does a fair job. I was surprised to see him in this section of the paper.

[Thrownatbirth]

Why was it assigned, produced and then presented, if not to serve a political end?

Since history began the day they were born, the MSM uses homesickness to advance the US troop-as-a-victim storyline. It's Bush's fault.

[LjubivojeRadosavljevic]

Since history began the day they were born, the MSM uses homesickness to advance the US troop-as-a-victim storyline. It's Bush's fault.

Really?...How is this all Bush's fault?...Just wondering.

[Thrownatbirth]

It’s the end of the week and I was short of “/s”.

[Kakaze]

The msms likes to treat deployments as some kind of forced service. I am a vet I understand what it is to volunteer......and I appreciate everything our soldiers do.

I wish they were home at night but its just not that kind of job. The real problem is the country is not and has never been on a war front.

The country FEELS NO SENSE OF URGENCY to win this war.

Being told all is well worry about brittany and spend money at the mall is not the way to motivate a population to do whatever is necessary or to understand the sacrifice needed to win.

[RichInOC]

The war was pretty close in 2001. If we want it close again, we can probably arrange it. Whether we’ll like it when it comes back is another matter entirely.