How many have the press killed over the years. Listen I know we need them, fine, still when Mike Wallace died their was an old interview played on talk radio. Mike did not think he had an obligation to report if American troops were going to be ambushed from any investigation he was doing.
I used to read LA Times – I wanted to know what the enemy within is up to..No more, they, together with the rest of the US leftist media don’t matter much anymore . . . .
The problem is the media today has no moral compass. Ever since Vietnam, the media has insisted on having a camera shoved up the ass of every troop in a combat zone because “Americans have a right to know.” The problem is they don’t recognize that the enemy is watching, too, and those very reports — while possibly important — also can serve to inflame the enemy and cause American deaths. Journalists who release that info should be charged with manslaughter for those troops killed as a direct result of those broadcasts.
Reporters, and cartoonists, used to incorporate a sense of responsibility for their actions, even when exercising their right to free speech. Today, like most Americans, whatever will make them money and promotion is all many think about. It’s a notable lack of ethics, not “freedom”.
A photographer in ’Nam got in my face and asked what I thought about when picking up our dead friends. He woke in the hospital with his jaw wired shut, aware.
The story needed to be run.We send our troops over seas not just to fight but as representatives of everything we claim this country represents. When they behave badly it reflects on all of us.
Wars should never end because of the media and/or public opinion. Wars should only end because they are won. That is a fundamental flaw with your logic, and apparently one shared by a large swath of the liberal base.
Dtroutma; I am very proud of you, but not for knocking the running lights out of that idiot reporter, but because you were “in country” while I was afloat in that same conflagration, it’s just too bad you turned left instead of the other way (I’m a Lefty and therefore forbidden to use the word beginning with ‘r’ and ending with ‘t’).
OnTarget about 12 years ago
How many have the press killed over the years. Listen I know we need them, fine, still when Mike Wallace died their was an old interview played on talk radio. Mike did not think he had an obligation to report if American troops were going to be ambushed from any investigation he was doing.
petergrt about 12 years ago
I used to read LA Times – I wanted to know what the enemy within is up to..No more, they, together with the rest of the US leftist media don’t matter much anymore . . . .
Wraithkin about 12 years ago
The problem is the media today has no moral compass. Ever since Vietnam, the media has insisted on having a camera shoved up the ass of every troop in a combat zone because “Americans have a right to know.” The problem is they don’t recognize that the enemy is watching, too, and those very reports — while possibly important — also can serve to inflame the enemy and cause American deaths. Journalists who release that info should be charged with manslaughter for those troops killed as a direct result of those broadcasts.
cjr53 about 12 years ago
And the Russians didn’t know this before the report?
Or did the shrubster & cheney let something else slip?
Nebulous Premium Member about 12 years ago
The problem with the Middle Eastern Nations is that most of the fighting there is over things that happened CENTURIES ago.
OnTarget about 12 years ago
Maybe so but you go there and see how smart you are.
Dtroutma about 12 years ago
Reporters, and cartoonists, used to incorporate a sense of responsibility for their actions, even when exercising their right to free speech. Today, like most Americans, whatever will make them money and promotion is all many think about. It’s a notable lack of ethics, not “freedom”.
A photographer in ’Nam got in my face and asked what I thought about when picking up our dead friends. He woke in the hospital with his jaw wired shut, aware.
tengu99 about 12 years ago
The story needed to be run.We send our troops over seas not just to fight but as representatives of everything we claim this country represents. When they behave badly it reflects on all of us.
Wraithkin about 12 years ago
Wars should never end because of the media and/or public opinion. Wars should only end because they are won. That is a fundamental flaw with your logic, and apparently one shared by a large swath of the liberal base.
padgetster about 12 years ago
Dtroutma; I am very proud of you, but not for knocking the running lights out of that idiot reporter, but because you were “in country” while I was afloat in that same conflagration, it’s just too bad you turned left instead of the other way (I’m a Lefty and therefore forbidden to use the word beginning with ‘r’ and ending with ‘t’).