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2007-07-04 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Michael Yon: where is the American media?

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Posted by Mike 2007-07-04 10:48|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top
File under: Iraqi Insurgency

#1 Instapundit notes:
UPDATE: A journalist whose name you'd recognize emails:

Yon's story doesn't get attention because it is humiliating.

It is humiliating because it is obvious that we media and our allies in the state department, the legal trade, the NGOs, the Democratic Party, the UN, etc., - cant do squat about such determined use of force.

Our words, images, arguments and skills cant stop the killing. Only the rough soldiers and their guns can solve the problem, and we wont admit that fact because the admission would weaken our influence and our claim to social status.

So we pretend Yons massacre and the North Korean killing fields, the Arab treatment of women, the Arab hatred of Israel, etc. - doesnt exist, and instead focus our emotions and attention on the somewhat-bad domestic things that we can fix with our DC-based allies. Things such as Abu Ghraib, wiretapping, etc. When we fix them, then we get status, applause, power, new jobs, ego, etc.

Please dont be surprised. We media are an interest group not much different from the automakers, the unions, and the farmers.

pretty damning

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-07-04 11:45|| 2007-07-04 11:45|| Front Page Top

#2 Yes, pretty damning. In addition to the story being humiliating for the MSM it does not fit with their perceptions of who they are and what "important" role they play in society--in a few words, it does not fit their agenda. Their agenda should be honest reporting which they have not done for a long time but alas is not. The "fourth estate" becomes part of the "fifth column" because of false reporting or no reporting.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-07-04 12:28|| 2007-07-04 12:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Pravda and Izvestia: The truth isn't true and freedom is free.

Posted by SR-71 2007-07-04 12:35|| 2007-07-04 12:35|| Front Page Top

#4 "A journalist whose name you'd recognize emails"

That journalist needs to take off the mask. This bullshit has got to stop.

Especially after watching hot air's NBC Dragon Armor expose.

Posted by Danking70 2007-07-04 13:01|| 2007-07-04 13:01|| Front Page Top

#5 Surprisingly, my local newspaper did run the story, but without photos. It wasn't a large piece - less than four inches - but it WAS reported. Of course, the local area has about 40,000 US military present, and dozens of Rantburg "lurkers".

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-07-04 13:33|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-07-04 13:33|| Front Page Top

#6
"Journalist, Tree, Rope

Some assembly required"

Posted by CrazyFool 2007-07-04 14:03|| 2007-07-04 14:03|| Front Page Top

#7 Its a dangerous world out there and the media is not making it any safer. Actually, they want to see a conflaguration where AQ or some other terror group strikes us and kills only republicans and gives money, oil and tickets to U2 concerts to democrats, journalists and film makers.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2007-07-04 14:42|| 2007-07-04 14:42|| Front Page Top

#8 Journalist, Tree, Rope

Some assembly required"

Correction required, replace "Journalist," with "Editor"
(He sets policy, not the reporters/journalists)
they report, he ignores, fix the problem at it's source.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-07-04 15:11|| 2007-07-04 15:11|| Front Page Top

#9 The MSM has finally crossed the line into irrelevance. That was fast.
Michael Yon, keeping busy with troops in Iraq didn't see it coming, but those of us who have watched the media decline with wild eyed anticipation, welcome it. The really interesting thing is that they still refuse to correct their methods. I guess this is a lesson in denial.
Some day, the left, the donks, and the MSM will slam into a wall, and then they will know that time has moved on without them. Don't look back.

Posted by wxjames 2007-07-04 15:28|| 2007-07-04 15:28|| Front Page Top

#10 It does not fit the defeatist propaganda of the American left the MSM tells.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-07-04 18:44|| 2007-07-04 18:44|| Front Page Top

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