Just a post...
Where is Big Dick? His blog seems to have disappeared. I haven't checked in a few days, so maybe he posted his intention to remove it - if anyone knows, please fill me in.
Today on the radio they were having a call-in opinion poll on whether listeners believe that the media should be embedded with the troops in Iraq. This was prompted by the hoopla surrounding the Marine shooting the seemingly unarmed terrorist.
First of all, the media did everyone involved in this incident a huge disservice by publishing this and then feeding us the details and circumstances in a piecemeal manner. This Marine did the absolute right thing. The bastards are playing possum and blowing up our troops, for Christ's sake. Why should he take the chance?
I'm not sure how I feel about the media being there in the first place. I always go back to the concept that observing a process alters that process. On the other hand, we should see it, understand it, feel it. A more important thing to consider is that pulling out the media, modifying their access, or turning media coverage over the military would fuel a new uprising that the administration was trying to "cover up" what was really going on over there.
It wouldn't matter that it is unsafe - a media team almost got blown to hell when they flounced into a building filled with our troops. It wouldn't matter that according to the returning military men, we aren't seeing the truth anyway - it's all propaganda. It wouldn't matter that they are allowing the general public to become armchair quarterbacks. They would just seize upon the cover up idea and run with it. Sensationalism at all costs.
War is freaking hell, people. People bleed. People die. That is it. No popcorn. No perfectly coiffed hero that dies in the arms of his beloved, only to show up at the premiere flashing a beautifully capped smile. This was a young man, probably scared to death, walking through an enclosed building filled with the enemy. He was facing the same enemy that had pulled the "I'm just a unarmed wounded innocent" just before pulling out a gun and wasting his buddies and wounding him the day before. Now we have the audacity to question his judgment?? I would love to see these assholes go through a video simulation of what these troops are seeing and doing. They would be dead before the joystick got sweaty.
Today on the radio they were having a call-in opinion poll on whether listeners believe that the media should be embedded with the troops in Iraq. This was prompted by the hoopla surrounding the Marine shooting the seemingly unarmed terrorist.
First of all, the media did everyone involved in this incident a huge disservice by publishing this and then feeding us the details and circumstances in a piecemeal manner. This Marine did the absolute right thing. The bastards are playing possum and blowing up our troops, for Christ's sake. Why should he take the chance?
I'm not sure how I feel about the media being there in the first place. I always go back to the concept that observing a process alters that process. On the other hand, we should see it, understand it, feel it. A more important thing to consider is that pulling out the media, modifying their access, or turning media coverage over the military would fuel a new uprising that the administration was trying to "cover up" what was really going on over there.
It wouldn't matter that it is unsafe - a media team almost got blown to hell when they flounced into a building filled with our troops. It wouldn't matter that according to the returning military men, we aren't seeing the truth anyway - it's all propaganda. It wouldn't matter that they are allowing the general public to become armchair quarterbacks. They would just seize upon the cover up idea and run with it. Sensationalism at all costs.
War is freaking hell, people. People bleed. People die. That is it. No popcorn. No perfectly coiffed hero that dies in the arms of his beloved, only to show up at the premiere flashing a beautifully capped smile. This was a young man, probably scared to death, walking through an enclosed building filled with the enemy. He was facing the same enemy that had pulled the "I'm just a unarmed wounded innocent" just before pulling out a gun and wasting his buddies and wounding him the day before. Now we have the audacity to question his judgment?? I would love to see these assholes go through a video simulation of what these troops are seeing and doing. They would be dead before the joystick got sweaty.
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