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Minn. Star Trib Publishes Help Wanted Ad For Anti-Military Story
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2008/03/21/minn-star-trib-publishes-help-wanted-ad-anti-military-story ^

Posted on 03/21/2008 2:03:08 PM PDT by chessplayer

This is really taking their quest to find stories that makes victims out of members of the U.S. military to the farthest degree! The Minneapolis Star-Tribune is apparently now resorting to advertising to dredge up women in the military "whose marriage is ending" for a story they want to write. There is really only one reason they'd want such examples and that is so that they can show that the military is hard on women so as to show the military in a bad light.

Reader inquiry: Are you a woman in the military whose marriage has ended?

Are you a woman in the military whose marriage has ended?

We'd like to talk to you for a possible story.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: liberalmedia; militaryfamilies; militarywomen

1 posted on 03/21/2008 2:03:09 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer
This equates to making a hypothesis and then looking for evidence that supports said hypothesis.

The scientific community would call that pseudoscience, so this would be called psuedojournalism.

2 posted on 03/21/2008 2:09:01 PM PDT by Sopater (A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left. ~ Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: chessplayer

I was hoping that the new owners of the Star Tribune would reverse or at least cut back the relentless leftwing bias that infests the paper. They did briefly but now it’s as bad as its ever been.


3 posted on 03/21/2008 2:10:52 PM PDT by Parmenio
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To: Sopater

Its called “selective reporting.” Their bias is well known.


4 posted on 03/21/2008 2:17:33 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (ENERGY CRISIS made in Washington D. C.)
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To: chessplayer

This is news....how? (I mean to the Trib!)

The military is notoriously hard on marriages due to the long separations and the fact that sometimes younger enlisted members get into marriages too young or too quickly or without enough thought in order to get better benefits.

This has been the case for probably 20-30 years now!


5 posted on 03/21/2008 2:18:57 PM PDT by GatorGirl (Election 2008--It's all about the judges!!)
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To: chessplayer
This sounds like something Jerry Springer would do, only there would probably be a donkey in it somewhere.
6 posted on 03/21/2008 2:55:05 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims reserve the right to kill anyone who says otherwise.)
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To: chessplayer
Next project: investigate the linkage between stories on how the military lifetsyle results in broken marriages, and this
7 posted on 03/21/2008 7:47:51 PM PDT by castlebrew (true gun control is hitting where you're aiming!)
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