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America’s Broken Media

If you haven’t yet, read it.  Fact-checking issues at Time.

There’s agreement across the political spectrum, we have a broken media. Little agreement on how it is broken, however.  This guy is stuck on the media flagwaving for Bush’s war, which at this point is utterly irrelevant, if it ever was.  The Bush war plan had undeniable problems, but the idea of invading Iraq wasn’t one of them.  The media’s big failure today is far more egregious than failing to know whether or not Saddam had WMD.  No one knew that.  But any fool can see that (a) we can win in Iraq, (b) we are winning key victories in Iraq and (c) a precipitous, politically driven pullout will be a bigger disaster for Iraq, the United States and the entire Middle East than anything going on there now.  Yet, major news organizations such as AP and NYT continue with their pro-failure, “when-did-you-stop-beating-your-wife” line of coverage.

Topics: Iraq, media

  Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:30 pm on Monday, April 9, 2007

6 Responses to “America’s Broken Media”

1. The_Real_JeffS Says:
   April 10th, 2007 at 12:29 am

   HUGE fact checking issues. Hell, the final leg in Kuwait, while the troops acclimate to the region (utterly necessary), includes a lot of training, including very realistic training lanes up by Camp Buerhing. That puts the final touches on their training.

   So this is how the NYT (and that asshole, Murtha) support the troops…..they get turned into political points for the Dhimmicrats. How sweet.

2. saltydog Says:
   April 10th, 2007 at 2:58 am

   It was Time Magazine, Jeff, but I think the point applies to NYT as well. Unfortunately, it applies to too many “reporters” and congressmen. They have become drenched in American blood. It goes beyond questioning their patriotism–they are traitors pure and simple. I’ve never been one to toss that accusation around, either, because it is so serious, but if the shoe fits . . . .

3. MikeH Says:
   April 10th, 2007 at 4:11 am

   Jeff, do you and Saltydog want to join my USMC excommunicating Murtha project? I really don’t like the idea of someone saying Marine and Murtha in the same breath.

4. Purple Avenger Says:
   April 10th, 2007 at 6:36 am

   Time has become a pathetic shadow of its former self. Decades ago I used to have a subscription, then I went to picking up an occasional issue at the news stand, now I don’t even bother to pick it up and read it if I’m in a doctor’s waiting room.

5. CavMedic Says:
   April 10th, 2007 at 9:59 am

   Jeff is right-Buehring has the only 360 degree live-fire range I have ever been on in the Army.

   Now, let me see if I’ve gt this straight. The kid went to artillery OSUT (14 weeks), then to his brigade, then an NTC rotation, plus probably three weeks of training in Kuwait with the good people at MPRI (Military Professional Resources International). That’s not too bad.

   One of our medics came to us-filling a hole in our ODD(operational deployment document)-pretty much right out of AIT, because we had to have him (he was in my section and I was glad to get him). He had gone to Ft. Drum to Mob, cause there is a lot that has to be done before you deploy (tons of admin crap), but he didn’t get the four months of training the rest of the regiment went through at Camp Shelby.

   For that matter, neither did I. I got to Shelby about a month before we deployed so I got an accelerated version of training, but I had already deployed once. Look, some of that training is worthwhile, but a lot of it is just checking a box. When you get to theater and do your right-seat-ride with the unit you are relieving is when you really learn a lot.

   The new policy for guard units is one-year total deployments. That means a month or two at the Mob site, 9 months in theater and then a month of demob and terminal leave. No way to undergo the extensive training that Congressman Abscam seems to want. We’ll probably be hearing more of this angle from his flacks in the MSM though.

6. The_Real_JeffS Says:
   April 10th, 2007 at 9:59 am

   Thanks, saltydog, it’s hard to tell which “Times” is lying at any one time……in line with PA, I used to read Time magazine a lot, way back when. These days, Reader’s Digest has more substance.

   MikeH, it sounds like a noble project, but I doubt that the USMC would publicly diss a sitting congresscritter, especially one controlling (in part) defense funds. How would you approach this?

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