Commentary: How the media changed

UPI ^ | 4/8/3 | Martin Walker

[What Is Ain't]

It's interesting how a dose of reality affects these J-school elitists.

[Blueflag]

Great read. I'll give you several bumps on this one.

Hope he still has his job after his editor reads the story.

Trust he doesn't care if he does.

God bless him.

[Blueflag]

BTTT

[Bahbah]

A must bump.

[Rubber_Duckie_27]

This guy seems to get it...very nice story.

[Blueflag]

one more time ...

Great read.

[MonroeDNA]

Great, great post.

This is going to drive the socialists here in the USA absolutely nuts. All they have is propaganda, and now they are going to lose that, too.

Watch for the howls, from the usual suspects.

[johnb838]

One of the consequences of the way the British and Americans have dropped conscription and now use professional armies is that the media and the broader population have become disconnected from their troops.

I would disagree with this statement. I think the entire post-vietnam experience has been about America learning to love our military again, and learning to use it rightly, for good. Clinton couldn't destroy that bond however hard he tried. And now the democrats and the media are going to have to learn that the world doesn't dance to their tune any more. Because they're soft on crime, soft on defense, and soft on socialism. They are racist, they are classist, they are elitist, and they are pigs.

It doesn't take a weatherman to tell which way the wind blows, to steal one of their old lines.

[eddie willers]

Of course it was alright. Forget journalistic objectivity.

Peter Jennings would have reported it....the swine.

All hail the embedded reporter idea.

[MonroeDNA]

BTW, wasn't it Rummy's idea to do the imbeds?

Rummy is absolutely BRILLIANT!

[Mr. Mulliner]

This is a great read. I especially like this.

There was no question which side I was on.

Oh, if only the rest of mediadom didn't work so hard at making moral equivalence arguments and instead faced up to the fact that one side in this conflict is working for freedom of the press.

[Blueflag]

Sean Hannity cited another origin today for the embeds, but I forget ...

BTTT

[alnick]

I think that Victoria Clarke gets the credit for the idea.

[Pegita]

Sending this back to the top ...

[libbylu]

It was Tori Clark's idea....

[Bernard Marx]

Rummy is absolutely BRILLIANT!

I agree. He drives the Libs absolutely nuts! The embed concept has done more to jolt reporters back to reality than anything I've seen in the last 35 years.

Martin Walker is a pretty hard case, too. He's a Leftist and I think he started with Britain's Guardian newspaper which is left of the Daily Worker. I just checked his biography and got the feeling he might have been "growing" a little over the past few years. The title of his last book was: "Bill Clinton: the President They Deserve." I hope he meant the people who voted for Klintoon.

[yonif]

I wonder if this is said about Israeli troops fighting terrorism.

[Revolting cat!]

"There was no question which side I was on."

A shocking admission coming from a Western journalist!

[LisaFab]

There is Sarge, who grumbles that this war is all about oil and is far from sure he likes it.

Hmm.

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