For The Record

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The U.S. Department of Defense is now taking its requests for corrections public through a website known as For the Record (located at http://www.defenselink.mil/home/dodupdate/index-b.html). Here, the Department of Defense is openly calling for corrections from major media outlets, and even noting when they refuse to publish letters to the editor.

The most recent was this past Tuesday, when the DOD published a letter, that the New York Times refused to run, which contained quotes from five generals (former CENTCOM commander Tommy Franks, current CENTCOM commander John Abizaid, MNF Commander George Casey, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Richard Myers, as well as his successor, Peter Pace) that rebutted a New York Times editorial. This has been picked up by a number of bloggers who have been able to spread the Pentagon's rebuttal – and the efforts of the New York Times to sweep it under the rug – across the country.

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The DOD is pushing back, not only putting out requests to correct the record (with the refusals published as well), but also citing stories of heroes that the media has failed to cover – usually two or three a week. Among these are accounts of those who have been awarded medals for battlefield bravery, like Navy Cross recipients Robert J. Mitchell Jr. and Bradley A. Kasal, as well as Silver Star recipients Juan M. Rubio, Sarun Sar, Jeremy Church, and Leigh Ann Hester. The DOD has also followed CENTCOM's lead in running pieces on what terrorists actually say – another item largely ignored by the mainstream media.

5 Comments

DirtCrashr | October 27, 2006 11:45 AM | Reply

Good for them, but I wish they had been doing this, and more of this, from the beginning.

nick | October 27, 2006 12:44 PM | Reply

CNN is Singled out for its bias only because it was caugh repeatedly bending accounts to avoid alienating the enemy, accounts such as; any Nick Roberts report ,Qana, Sniper snuff films etc.

The media has positioned its self as the high priests of moral and cultural relativism, And can no longer be trusted to present any thing resembling truth.Its time a healty backlash started.

We can only hope this spreads to that other cess-pit of relativism,academia.

TruthSeeker | October 27, 2006 2:35 PM | Reply

Wouldn't the DoD be biased too if it's reporting on itself?

maryT | October 27, 2006 4:34 PM | Reply

This is why one should get out on Nov 7 and vote Republican, just to watch the msm have a huge meltdown.

Liz J | October 28, 2006 10:24 PM | Reply

The Democrats haven't many absolute shoo-ins for Nov. 7th. Willy is out stumping for his beloved Hillary and he's such a good stumper,though she'd probably do well anyway. Hell, some have her pegged as next President.

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