Many on the Right have always been suspect of the MSM media when it came to reporting on the Iraq War. While the first official shot may have been CNN showing video of enemy snipers at work, it seems that open hostilities have been declared now that President Bush has begun the infamous surge.
Within the past two days, the New York Times violated a standard ethical constraint when it broadcast video of an American Marine being shot, also reporting his death without officially contacting his family. They are reported to have suffered greatly in the process of viewing it. If there's any justice, they will sue the Times for the little bit that it's still worth.
A CBS journalist / activist has gone the extra mile in attempting to draw attention to a gruesome al-Qaeda video she incorporated into a news report without attribution.
Still, back again to the New york Times - a victory over hundreds of insurgents wasn't reported as a victory at all, simply an episode that raised questions, as it wasn't accomplished easily enough - that according to the Times.
As silly as Jane Fonda taking back her apology, and now apparently back in Vietnam, Turner Broadcasting showed how seriously they take the war on terror, using that very thing for a publicity stunt that closed down a major city.
And still the AP refuses to accept responsibility for its earlier unethical and misleading reporting from Iraq.
Today's disgusting anti-military screed from the WaPo's Arkin should come as little surprise.
Perhaps emboldened by so many Democrats and some Republicans now betraying their very own earlier votes as they muster political opposition to victory in Iraq, clearly the MSM has decided to take the mask off of their own opposition to the Iraq War.
If we thought coverage has been biased up until now, buckle up - it's going to get worse.
—Dan Riehl is a blogger and journalist. Read more of his work at Riehl World View.
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You know folks it may be time
January 31, 2007 - 21:36 ET by ghost of Mary Jo KopechneYou know folks it may be time for another civil war...
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civillians at war
January 31, 2007 - 21:44 ET by the mad poleI guess it is by sheer coincidence this very subject was seriiously discussed on a construction site I worked this day. Relevant when you consider who will be shedding the blood.
I'm halfway inclined to agree
January 31, 2007 - 22:11 ET by AtheistRepublicanI'm halfway inclined to agree with you, it wouldn't be at all difficult, the peaceniks would give in in a day.
There has to be a more reasonable approach to combating the MSM however, if we even have to, it seems like they may be sinking their own ship, maybe I'm crazy but it seems like I hear more and more everyday about the network news ratings drop and liberal newspaper circulation dieing, and of course the whole air America thing. At this rate they wont be around much longer.
My statement was tongue in ch
January 31, 2007 - 22:22 ET by ghost of Mary Jo KopechneMy statement was tongue in cheek, but I will never, ever forget or forgive what these bastards have done to put the bravest, greatest people on this earth, in a bad light.
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ghost,It may have been tongue
February 1, 2007 - 10:28 ET by Dave Rghost,
It may have been tongue in cheek, but you may be on to something. I have been feeling for some time that there has to be a huge number of Americans who do not plan to "go quietly into the night" while the America-hating lefties cave in to the Islamic barbarians and surrender this nation's sovreignty to the illegal alien invaders.
At least, I hope there are.
They're not going to die
February 1, 2007 - 08:23 ET by SportPoliticsThey're not going to die. For a million viewers they lose, they gain 3million hits on the internet, at their newsites there.
They may have to restructure their ad/money making modelling, and branch out somehow, like NYT did with content access.
It's a graven and mistaken dream to think they will die. Air America never had a life, these alphabet lib msm places have a proven shame under their belts. No chance they crumble. Get a bit overshadowed by the growing market niches ? Ok, but even that won't change much, and the dems will never dare to give everyone free cable for 5 billion a year, a mere pittance anymore.
Sport, you are being too pess
February 1, 2007 - 08:33 ET by NL207Sport, you are being too pessimistic. How many of these MSM outlets have any real competition in their primary medium? Who competes with ABC, NBC and CBS news on the brodcast frequencies? Nobody does.
Same with newsprint. What is the real competion to most newspapers? Except in the largest cities, there is only one newsprint company. Even the Globe doesn't really have any competition. The WaPo used to have the Star as a competitor and now the Times. In NY, the only competition to the Time is tabloid format.
Its too easy for a few senior editors to control content completely in thiose circumstances.
The internet is wide open. Look at the tripe LibertyorDeath and ThoughtPolice post here. Outright wacko stuff. At the same time, there are huge amounts of conservative viewpoint materials on the net that would never appear anywhere but AM talk radio otherwise.
And last, one would think that if the government were to apply the Fairness Doctrine to AM radio, then all other formats and media should be so affected as well. The Fairness Doctrine is the enemy of the 1st Amendment an the last refuge of the tyrants seeking to control political iscourse in Americca..
These SP idiots just have t
February 1, 2007 - 07:19 ET by RowaneThese SP idiots just have to keep pushing it, don't they? Is it possible to be more Anti-American than these mediots?
Thank goodness we are the one
February 1, 2007 - 18:20 ET by amberThank goodness we are the ones with the guns.
I've been trying to find a wa
January 31, 2007 - 21:53 ET by Scout FinchI've been trying to find a way to posit this question. Now's as good a time as any. Does anyone here remember a "secret" meeting held in Europe about two or three years ago, including many Dems, particularly Hillary and Biden, along with many in the press and media, even entertainment? I remember something about it in Drudge, but it got little play on the Internet.
After the nastiness of the press during the 2006 elections, even going back to the 2004 elections, I wonder if something took place between the Dems and the general media. Perhaps a tacit agreement to totally push the envelope on coverage of conservatives in general, and Bush in particular.
Day after day, there are examples of the press ignoring news items that reflect badly on the Dems, and overblowing anything about Republicans. There is no longer a veneer of honest or truthful news reporting. Their coverage of the war in Iraq is downright treasonous.
Does anyone else remember this meeting, or was I only imagining it?
yessir i do
January 31, 2007 - 22:04 ET by the mad poleI remember Gore and the press conducting close door meetings before the elections and the networks calling Florida , Al's an hour before voting was over !! The pan handle being in the central time zone. I remember watching with my wife the results coming in showing Bush ahead by large numbers , yet Stephenopoulis doing a victory squeal!! It was surreal.
The New york Times has passed
January 31, 2007 - 22:05 ET by Sonny LykosThe New york Times has passed the test and is now a full fledged member of CODEPINK!
How about the 2 democrats who went to shake Saddam's hand ?
February 1, 2007 - 08:50 ET by SportPoliticsHow about the 2 democrats who went to shake Saddam's hand ? Gosh I've seen Rumsfeld's handshake pick +/or mention 3,000 times on the MSM, but it was like pulling teeth from a live tyrranosaurus to try to find the 2 congressional democrats who went over to make friends with Saddam, buried as it was, and removed from the online archives, page not found after bookmarking, within a day.
I think the dems euro summit was about "making friends not enemies" in the "no coalition days" of msm reporting, like Kerry's "I have agreements from european leaders, but won't say who,and their denial is no proof of anything".
Funny how you bring something up and I remember a bigshot blatant dem lie. They're so common, it's inevitable.
you need to add to this list
January 31, 2007 - 22:04 ET by Conservative in the Artsyou need to add to this list of tonights NBC peice by Andrea Mitchel about "The claims of Iran interfering in Iraq"
I wanted to scream my head off as I watched this monkey cover her eyes.
Such precious gems as:
"just because the IED's are Iranian made, does not mean they came from Iran, directly."
"But according to one Bush admin official........" Yea and what are the odds he was put in office by Clinton? There are people that work at the CIA that vote Dem, but that doesn't make them Bush admin officals......
The MSM supports the troops. The enemy's troops!
January 31, 2007 - 22:12 ET by Free StinkerTime to bring back a previous tagline.
The MSM supports the troops. The enemy's troops!
Am still thinking that that l
January 31, 2007 - 22:45 ET by ucAm still thinking that that list of 79 suggestions or conclusions depend on number 80 as I have mentioned before. Number 80: Have right of center or even just centrists buy up and out the MSM houses.
NYT Disgusting Traitors
January 31, 2007 - 22:50 ET by emjem24What kind of journalistic value is there in seeing a soldier dying? This absolutely just makes me bleed inside. I'm having trouble containing the tears right now. As a military spouse, I always have this fear as do other spouses. Why are we focusing on something as stupid as global warming? The NYT are disgusting traitors. Why can't the Bush administration grow a pair and shut this newspaper down already? We already know who the NYT (along with CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, and CNN) are supporting and it isn't our troops. Why the false veneer of patriotism even by Lara Logan who is South African? None of these reporters of the MSM variety give a damn about the military. Photographing and filming soldiers getting killed by terrorists (oh I'm sorry freedom fighters) is just so much sport for these people. When will it end? Why aren't they villified by the public, our president, Congress, and their fellow journalist traitors? Hell, they signed a form agreeing not to film or photograph such incidents. They lied and did this anyway. Where is the humanity and the empathy in a single soldier's death? No, that got lost when these traitorous shills saw their next juicy byline: Watch A Soldier Die! It's Great Sport! Where is this public outcry over this sh$%?
The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer. Air Force Motto
emjem says: When your brain's stuck on liberalism it self-destructs.
There is none, they're just sick
February 1, 2007 - 00:50 ET by terrigYou know, this makes me sadder than I can say. I don't know what is wrong with these people. I wonder what is wrong with our President and members of Congress who don't speak out about this crap & why is most of the public silent. Do they even care, do they know? I hope his family sues the Grey Lady for everything they have left. I see where the old leftie Mollie Ivins died today. Did the Times film her death? Will it be on the website, of course not. She's one of their own and obviously must have "done better in school in order to not be stuck in Iraq" to paraphrase the french looking one.
I feel intense sadness for Sg
February 1, 2007 - 01:08 ET by Indiana JoeI feel intense sadness for Sgt. Leija's family and their loss. Not to mention the heartless way they found out about it. Courtesy of the unfeeling "Grey Lady."
As for the NYT, I am SEETHING! These worthless bastards have finally completely crossed any line of compassion or decency. Their half-hearted efforts to "indirectly" contact the family make me want to personally beat the HELL out of whoever is responsible, one at a time. And their flimsy excuse? They violated one rule while trying to abide by another? This is an argument I wouldn't let my 4TH GRADE SON get away with!!!
The only consolation I can take is that they apparently have a money hemorrhage that will hopefully prove fatal. Being a witness to the death of this so-called "paper of record" would be sweet indeed. I pray to God that the Leija family ends up owning their sorry asses. Literally.
And yet these soldiers put
February 1, 2007 - 07:32 ET by RowaneAnd yet these soldiers put their lives on the line for their precious Freedon of Speech EVERY day, Damned commie sonsabitches.
Does anyone else get the feeling that the mediots would choose Satan, himself, against America?
God Bless America, and DAMN her moslem and mediot ENEMIES
"...clearly the MSM has
February 1, 2007 - 02:08 ET by mattm"...clearly the MSM has decided to take the mask off of their own opposition to the Iraq War."
Not to split hairs, but this is waaaayyyy beyond opposition to the war, this is opposition to America. The editors of the NYT should be charged with treason, sedition, propagandizing for the enemy and anything else they can dig up! Even if only to make a point.
murder is ratings!!!
February 1, 2007 - 09:46 ET by James AnthonyIf it didn't sell papers, they wouldn't do it. If there wasn't an audiance, it wouldn't be there. I coudn't agree more how wrong it was to publicize this American being murdered, let's call it what it is. If everyone called the companies that advertise in the times and told them they would no longer buy thier product because of where they spend thier advertising dollars, it would all come to a screaching halt. That's my plan anyway. Just a squirt gun in front of a tidal wave......
They could sell alot more pap
February 1, 2007 - 10:23 ET by mattmThey could sell alot more papers if they reported the news accurately and even-handedly. But their political agenda, not their bottom line, is what drives them.
advertising in the nyt should your hurt business
February 1, 2007 - 10:36 ET by oorampWhy not a section here listing advertisers on the worst of American media companies? No threats, just a list, so those of us who wouldn't buy those products if they knew they supported nyt or cnn for example.I know there are companies that advertise everywhere, but i'm sure there are ones who only advertise on the backstabbing media broadcast & print pages. Not much against the Left I know, but they use all they got, shouldn't those of us on the Right do the same?
The Washington Times had a co
February 1, 2007 - 10:07 ET by slvrwlfThe Washington Times had a couple of lines from the Arkin piece and it was enough for me to want to put a fist through my computer. Look, this nation deserves honest debate, questioning, and opposition, but it does not deserve the blatant anti-American sentiments that these so-called "journalism professionals" spew each day.
As an Army veteran, I do my utmost to not be angry at these anti-military leftists because it will accomplish nothing besides raise my blood pressure. Does any one of these leftists even realize the amount of humanitarian good the military does around the world? Was it not the United States Navy that was first on-station after the Southeast Asian tsunami with ships to generate freshwater for the region and conduct humanitarian flights? Was it not the United States Air Force that executed the Marshall Plan after World War II? Was it not the United States Army that was down in the Gulf region after Hurricane Katrina conducting evacuation flights and assisting in the recovery effort?
I dare these leftists to tell me what other organization besides the United States military has the manpower, determination, logistics capability, and rapid mobilization ability to respond to virtually any humanitarian crisis around the world and in our own nation. The ignorant left can throw all the poison they want at people like me and my brothers and sisters-in-arms because for all the hate they feel towards the military, when they need our assistance, we'll be there for them. That is the heart of serving your country...something that these "journalist" have long forgotten.
Which is why I wouldn't blame
February 1, 2007 - 11:27 ET by mattmWhich is why I wouldn't blame the military if it dragged its feet a little were a disaster to strike, say, the NYT building. I know that our soldiers have too much honor for that though. Honor is another thing the MSM has forgotten...
I have a new Reality TV show
February 1, 2007 - 10:49 ET by BDI have a new Reality TV show proposal for the MSM. Drop the Washington Post's Arkin at Fort Bragg or Fort Benning and film his attempts to deal with the residents for 30 days.
Hilarious results guaranteed....