Posted on 08/18/2005 3:03:15 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
The Washington Post has pulled out of a Pentagon-sponsored Freedom Walk to commemorate 9/11 and support our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan because it was deemed too political. Meanwhile, the New York Times, CBS, and other news organizations have joined with the ACLU in demanding that the Pentagon release more sensational photos and videos of Iraqi prisoner abuse. The inevitable result of such disclosure, according to General Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is that Islamic terrorists will exploit the material and kill Americans. Do our media care?
Our media will rally around a reporter who goes to jail to protect her sources. But when the Pentagon tries to keep potential propaganda material from falling into the hands of the enemy, the media are in court with the ACLU against the Pentagon.
The American people have to wise up to the media's tricks. We are involved in a propaganda war that may be more important than what happens on the battlefield. Newsweek's false "Koran in the toilet" story was only one example of how we are losing the media war. It caused violent protests across the Middle East and 17 deaths. The new prisoner abuse images, obtained by an Army soldier who helped uncover the scandal, is not "false" in the Newsweek sense. But it will be exploited to give a false or warped perception of what U.S. military personnel are doing in Iraq. As Myers says in a court document, "It is probable that Al-Qaeda and other groups will seize upon these images and videos as grist for their propaganda mill which will result in, besides violent attacks, increased terrorist recruitment, continued financial support, and exacerbation of tensions between the Iraqi and Afghani populaces and U.S. and Coalition forces."
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darn double posts
He knows. He's been banned under various aliases two or three hundred times. Comes back daily. Sometimes several times per day. Today is no exception. He's a professional DUh troll.
I thought he might have been a new member
If BIGPRESS were truly impartial they would show pictures of the torture chambers or the gassed Kurds or the people on 9/11 jumping to their death. They appear to try so hard to see the other side of things why don't they see how the other side recieves the "news" they print.
why am I double posting so much today?
"why am I double posting so much today?"
Don't know
Don't know
My $0.02 is that the media doesn't have to be patriotic, but it should not aid and abet the enemy in a time of war like too much of the MSM is doing.
As to the presstitutes, patriotism is merely love and devotion to one's country. It need not be blind. Our problem is that the MSM is trying to harm America for political reasons. Something they did not do when the Sink Emperor was asleep at the anti-terrorist wheel. All we want are balance and facts, not leftist agendas. If the MSM was true to its charter, New Media would probably not exist. Alas, MSM's elitist arrogance has cut its own throat...
lol
I've heard this over and over and I have to ask:
Why must the MSM continue to publish pictures of WTC victims falling to their deaths? If you need to see them they are readily available. The major news media ran them at the appropriate time--WHEN THEY WERE NEWS.
To continue to drag them out is ghoulish and propagandistic.
go away now please
Do you really wish to go down the path of what is appropriate?
well said
Ever hear of Sun Myung Moon?
Whatever other problems he has, he's not Saudi.
I'm glad to see that you know that. Yet his newspaper seems to be a trusted source in here. I don't get it.
This is just sad; I pity you.
Thanks, Jim! BTTT!
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