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REUTERS' RIP-OFF
New York Post ^ | 7/25/03 | DEANNA WRENN

Posted on 07/25/2003 2:02:29 AM PDT by kattracks

Edited on 05/26/2004 5:15:14 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Jessica Lynch, the wounded Army private whose ordeal in Iraq was hyped into a media fiction of U.S. heroism, was set for an emotional homecoming on Tuesday . . . Media critics say the TV cameras will not show the return of an injured soldier so much as a reality-TV drama co-produced by U.S. government propaganda and credulous reporters.


(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: West Virginia; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: deannawrenn; deceit; fabrication; jessicalynch; mediabias; reuters

1 posted on 07/25/2003 2:02:30 AM PDT by kattracks
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To: kattracks
Sue the b*st*rds!
2 posted on 07/25/2003 2:21:50 AM PDT by FReepaholic (My other tag line is hilarious.)
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To: tscislaw
Is this not scandal on the NY Times Jason Blair level, using the writer's name on a story written by someone else?
3 posted on 07/25/2003 2:37:36 AM PDT by jaykay
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To: kattracks
No offense, Ms. Wrenn, but you should've known better. Rooters has been full of it for years. Why cast pearls before swine in the first place?
4 posted on 07/25/2003 3:21:56 AM PDT by mewzilla
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To: kattracks
"Like the Lynch family, I may never know why members of the media act the way they do."

Sure we do. The media thinks everyone is stupid, gullible, naive, unwashed proles.

The media is controlled by socialists and Gramsci graduates out to trash anything American and anything good.
5 posted on 07/25/2003 6:13:25 AM PDT by OpusatFR (Using pretentious arcane words to buttress your argument means you don't have one)
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To: kattracks
Bump.
6 posted on 07/25/2003 9:58:03 AM PDT by DoctorMichael (>>>>>Liberals Suk. Liberalism Sukz.<<<<<)
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To: kattracks
As discussed by Rush in his first hour today.
7 posted on 07/25/2003 10:02:14 AM PDT by DoctorMichael (>>>>>Liberals Suk. Liberalism Sukz.<<<<<)
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