Posted on 11/21/2001 11:09:34 PM PST by JohnHuang2
The link I provided, "Irresponsibile Media Anger Public," provides the clarity regarding the statement I made and to which you refer. As I'm sure you know, no one but the President has the power to command the military and no one but Congress has the power to declare war. Obviously, we are not in "war" as declared by Congress. We are, however, engaged with the enemy and our President is taking action, through his Administration or otherwise, to carry that out. Making utterances against him/his Administration that appear to comfort the enemy, giving away positions of our military over the airwaves, is treasonous. But, I'm sure you're aware of this. So, what you are quibbling over is your preference that clarity be provided in a stand-alone posting rather than a link to another thread which provides greater clarity. I am glad we are not in college and receiving a grade from a stand-alone term paper rather than a collection of thoughts by which clarity may be reached. Toward that end, I now provide the information from that link to clarify my position regarding reporting the media to the FBI or Homeland Security:
Seven weeks into the war in Afghanistan, many Americans say the nation's news media are behaving irresponsibly - some even say treasonably - by providing coverage that helps the enemy and unnecessarily alarms people here.__________
Critics maintain that ego-driven journalists are so determined to break stories that they will do so even at the risk of jeopardizing the safety of U.S. troops and the security of their missions.
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"Some Americans are so fearful now that when they read information they don't like, they question the newspaper's patriotism," says Gina Lubrano, reader representative at the San Diego Union Tribune. "People are actually complaining about having too much information."
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. . . readers were furious. One threatened to report the paper to the FBI. Another said he was mailing the story to the Homeland Security Office "to see if you have violated a law." A third reader accused the paper of doing "leg work" for terrorists.
If we can get that number down, maybe, to 10%, would be better.
"Many, however, watch Katie Kuric, or Matt Liar. If that's not convenient (or entertaining enough), they go to Rosie " . . . Those who watch these imbiciles are "lost causes"
Or brain dead?
Gotta go all. Happy Thanksgiving! God President Bush and God Bless America and our troops.
It needs a name. How about the "*Crinton/Gore recession"?
"But hiding in the weeds, biding its time, is an enemy with its sights trained on Mr. Bush. This is the same foe that ambushed Bush's father in the early '90s..."
It could be called the "Bush recovery" - eh?
The Pew Research Center in a 1997? study found TV NEWS VIEWERSHIP DECLINES
Television news is in trouble with the American public. Fewer adults are regularly watching it these days. Viewership of nightly network news is particularly hard hit. Fewer than half the public (42%) now says it regularly watches one of the three nightly network broadcasts -- down from 48% in 1995 and 60% in 1993...I didn't do the math, but if there are 100M plus households, that puts the viewership of the "big three" at something approaching 50M.
And their viewership is probably mostly left wing activists, college professors, high school teachers and the like. In a land of 280 million, thats peanuts.
Far from peanuts IMO. Way too many people get their "news" from the networks; most are clueless to the mind bending they're getting.
FGS
The thing I noticed about Dubya that my hubby didn't notice was during the inauguration. When Dubya held up his hand and took the oath of office, he shook his hand at each pledge--as someone would do when they are trying to emphasize something or be emphatic about it. When Dubya took the oath, he meant every single word, and he swore with his heart and soul.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/000/606gdhpt.asp
Absolutely unfair! And when they did that I thought, "Wow! If this is the worst thing they can come up with, Dubya must be pretty clean!" HildeBeast's FBI files are useless against him.
I cannot post the link to this Weekly Standard article but I hope someone will. It is excellent. Thanks for pointing it out.
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