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It strikes me — as I watch at least a few among the media prompted into navel-gazing by a letter in the WaPo by an aunt of a deceased Army Lieutenant, killed in Afghanistan on the same day that Michael Jackson passed in slightly less heroic circumstances — that outrage over the, ahem, “news” media’s obsessively distracted and perverse publication and production decisions should continue until they get their act together.
Our soliders are ignored because the media simply cannot bring themselves to tell us these warriors’ and patriots’ stories (except in ways that fit the media narrative), the media having decided that they cannot reconcile that and our nation’s current struggles with their own politics, agendas and sensationalist impulses.
Think about this lieutenant and his comrades, deceased, wounded, returned intact and still battling, with each pile-on of global warming porn and ask yourself what’s wrong with these people.
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Tim| 7.8.09 @ 8:56AM
What's wrong is that "the media" is largely controlled by coastal elites and they run it as their own ministry of propaganda.
Think its bad now? Thank goodness that AM talk and the internet came along when they did.
Aaron| 7.8.09 @ 9:12AM
While having this discussion a friend said "they don't report it because its not news worthy to them". I disagree, I like your statement that they can't reconcile it. I simply believe that what happens in that realm of our existence doesn't fit in their vision of what life should be, therefore "if I don't report it, it doesn't exist and I can change the world".
james23| 7.8.09 @ 9:26AM
Given that Michael Jackson was the biggest circus freak in a nation obsessed with circus freaks, I'm not surprised by the Agitprop Media's 24/7 coverage of his death. What I am puzzled about, though, is the AP Media's decision not just to gawk, but to reinvent Jacko in death as a pop hero and loving family man. What is their stake in the makeover? Wierd.
G. A. Kevis| 7.8.09 @ 9:38AM
Excerpt from (D) Zell Millers speech at
2004 GOP convention:
" ...
Never in the history of the world has any soldier sacrificed
more for the freedom and liberty of total strangers than the
American soldier. And, our soldiers don't just give freedom
abroad, they preserve it for us here at home.
For it has been said so truthfully that it is the soldier,
not the reporter,
who has given us the freedom of the press.
It is the soldier,
not the poet,
who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the soldier,
not the agitator,
who has given us the freedom to protest.
It is the soldier who salutes the flag,
serves beneath the flag,
whose coffin is draped by the flag,
who gives that protester the freedom
to abuse and burn that flag.
No one should dare to even think about being
the Commander in Chief of this country if
he doesn't believe with all his heart that our soldiers
are liberators abroad and
defenders of freedom at home ...."
Got that - Napalitano ?
Got that - BHO ?
Got that - swamp things in the LMSM ?
Got that - idol worshipers in tinsel town
and beyond ?
Hermit| 7.8.09 @ 1:06PM
It is difficult to decide which is the greater scourge on our republic, the lying, self-serving miscreants that populate our political class or the camp following whores of the press.
They are united in their total contempt for the citizens it is their constitutionally privileged responsibility to serve.
In my view, greater danger is from the press when in their own words they can deliver 10-15% of the vote in a national election. From one election to the next individual politician may come or go but the press elites remain to frame the argument and control vital information.
We have identified this as a problem for so long it is almost becoming cliché.
The more difficult question is what can and will we do about it.
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