Posted on 06/06/2006 5:11:23 AM PDT by AirBorn
Considering that as Conservatives ; and those who are appointed with the tasks of ; educationing, speading the Truth of the News, and awakening John Q Public to the Threats Faced against this Nation that come from WITHIN- that This POST should be re-posted as reminder too--that:
Danger doesn't always come from WITHOUT!
Darth Airborne
No doubt CNN would be on the beach interviewing German soldiers about the imminent invasion.
Good post. It would have been devastating then....just as it is now. I will never understand why leaking of vital information is allowed.
It borders on treason!!
No doubt CNN broadcasters would have been happy to wear swastika arm bands during the news once Nazis overran the United States.
Goebbels would have played them like a fiddle.
Someone IS playing them like a fiddle today!
And they are happy to be played.
A few years later news reporters were asked not to use the words actinide, uranium, plutonium, atomic, thorium, and a host of similar topics, to cover leaks from Manhattan Engineering District.
They all complied.
Reporters were allowed to witness Trinity and asked not to report until after the first few weeks of August- the reporters remained silent until allowed to speak.
All before Edward R Murrow, Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, et cetera redefined the role of the press and redefined the words "patriot", "duty", "dissent", and without explicitly stating it, "honor".
You got that right. German propaganda newsreels would be run wall-to-wall.
We would have seen non stop coverage of the bombed out German cities along with interviews of weeping German mothers.
In World War II the Chicago Tribune basically gave away that the US had broken Japanese Naval Codes.
Nothing happened to them.
The idea that there was some sort of mythical good 'ol days where American Newspapers didn't give away vital information and if they did they were prosecuted is a myth.
The problem was even worse, on both sides, in the Civil War.
Exactly right. The naval officer who gave it to them was demoted, but nothing happened to the Trib.
You're too kind. It IS treason to leak classified information during a war but just who is going to call them on it? Tick, tick, tick, hmmm, nobody with authority that's for sure.
Quagmire!
They got used to it back during the Cold War, can't ask them to learn a new trade now!
Today's congress would have brought Ike back for hearings on why the casualties were so high at Omaha beach.
The way the media behaves today boggles the mind. It is one thing to be independent and challenge the government on domestic issues but when it comes to a war these same tactics place every American, military and civilian, in extreme danger. Again IMO, only a communist indoctrinated media could behave in this manner during a time of war and TREASON is the proper word and should be punished accordingly.
Sad but true.
Nah, they would have just investigated US soldiers shooting surrendering German soldiers.
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