The LadyX extends a sincere apology to be late to today's party, out of town in the morning and...it's a long story..:))
Trying to have a glimmer of pity for the current crop of so-called 'reporters' who abound these days all over the world.
Where is Ernie Pyle when you really, really need him?
Ernie Pyle
Ernie Pyle was one of the most famous war correspondents of World War II. Pyle studied journalism at Indiana University and left school to become a reporter for a small-town newspaper. Later, after various editorial jobs, he acquired a roving assignment for the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain; his daily experiences furnished him material for a column that eventually appeared in as many as 200 newspapers before World War II.
His coverage of the campaigns in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, and France brought him a Pulitzer Prize for reporting in 1944, as well as several other awards. The motion picture G.I. Joe (1945) was about Pyle's coverage of the Italian campaign. He was with the U.S. forces in the Pacific on Iwo Jima, and during the Okinawa campaign he visited the nearby island of Ie Shima, where he was killed by Japanese machine-gun fire.
— Source: Encyclopædia Britannica
I was aghast watching the CentCom Conference today at the positively insulting questions and comments made by 'journalists.'
Their disrespect and thinly veiled contempt for the General speaking was hideous, asking him why the command was wasting their time, not giving them juicy details to send back to their respective employers - where was their 'scoop' of the day? implied.
I say they should be placed in a Time Transponder and beamed back to cover The Hundred Year Wars between England and France.
LadyX