[Sangey]

Someone asked if the journalists are shunned distrusted by the Army. I was in the first gulf war and some reporters were coming to the unit My LT was gone, so I was in charge. 1SG told me I had to be extra careful because at the time I did not speak English particularly well and he said that they might try to get me to say something anti US without knowing it you have to be careful because they have a agenda that they want to get out and they want you to say it for them. In my platoon I had a squad leader that went to college and really speaks well and I had him with me and let him do the talking. It all went good, but he later said to me that the reporter wanted him to say that we were expecting lots of casualties and that we really shouldn't be here and that it was all blood for oil. Later we talked w/ 1SG and he said that it had been that way since Viet Nam.

Yes I believe that the soldiers today still distrust the media.

[clintonh8r]

In my opinion, modern "journalists" care about three things...

their careers

their ratings

their agendas

[april15Bendovr]

Key Battleground in Iraq War is the U.S. Media; Troops Attack Media Misreporting

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1534061/posts

[Spktyr]

Thank you for your service.

[leadpenny]

Journalists are like FReepers, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, etc. They don't all think and act alike.

"Yes I believe that the soldiers today still distrust the media."

I don't believe in that statement as an absolute, just as I don't believe "the MSM" is a monolith.

[nicko]

"Yes I believe that the soldiers today still distrust the media..."

roger that- I feel for these folks, and especially their loved ones; that being said, the media didn't "cover" Mogadishu through the late summer/fall of '93 until we had American servicemembers dismembered and dragged through the streets- although October 3rd/4th wasn't the first time it had happened, it was the first time a reporter got it on film...funny, I don't recall ever reading about Ernie Pyle being labled anything other than a reporter who called it like it was...whatever happened to those guys?

[rotundusmaximus]

Thank you for your service!