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January 14, 2005
The Media: Aiding and Abetting the Enemy?It's a serious charge, and I'm not really comfortable making it, at least not in those words. But LTC Tim Ryan of the 1st Cav apparently is fed up: I just read yet another distorted and grossly exaggerated story from a major news organization about the "failures" in the war in Iraq. Print and video journalists are covering only a small fraction of the events in Iraq and more often than not, the events they cover are only the bad ones. Many of the journalists making public assessments about the progress of the war in Iraq are unqualified to do so, given their training and experience. The inaccurate picture they paint has distorted the world view of the daily realities in Iraq. The result is a further erosion of international public support for the United States' efforts there, and a strengthening of the insurgents' resolve and recruiting efforts while weakening our own. Through their incomplete, uninformed and unbalanced reporting, many members of the media covering the war in Iraq are aiding and abetting the enemy. I don't think most of this is actual deliberate -- well, it's deliberate for most of the foreign press, of course, which actually wants America to lose -- but the American press is largely convinced that the war was a mistake, is and always was unwinnable, and that George Bush should be punished, by means foul or fair, for prosecuting it. They don't intend to aid the enemy, but, once again, you can't cover a war like this and expect any other result. Thanks to JimW for the tip. | Recent Comments
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