A journalist "whose name you'd recognize";
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., - can’t do squat about such determined use of force.
Our words, images, arguments and skills can’t stop the killing. Only the rough soldiers and their guns can solve the problem, and we won’t admit that fact because the admission would weaken our influence and our claim to social status.
So we pretend Yon’s massacre – and the North Korean killing fields, the Arab treatment of women, the Arab hatred of Israel, etc. - doesn’t 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 don’t be surprised. We media are an interest group not much different from the automakers, the unions, and the farmers.
we're done, we're done, what yakkity taliban jack listens to.
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/07/04/zawahiri.video/index.html
some chicken , some neck
"emotional terrorism"??? Seems the stilted progressivist media doesn't have a monopoly on hyperbole.
http://tinyurl.com/yvthtv
The problem with a lot of media is that they think that they are immune to misrepresenting infromation.
NBC needs to be sued - It needs to be a class action - on behalf of the families of the soldiers.
The willful denial of many major media to report the massacre covered by Yon speaks volumes to the rank political subjectivity in newsrooms across North America. Most news outlets are no longer objective purveyors of fact, rather maliciously manipulate raw information to support their viewpoints, which find their foundation primarily in contemporary liberal ideology.
A corresponding question might be: Why should we trust the coverage of Afghanistan by any of Canada's major players? Who is the Canadian Michael Yon in AFG?
The pendulum always swings back from any extreme. Right now the media are so corrupt, and so one sided, that the situation has to swing the other way at some point. Michael Yon will end up winning a Pulitzer prize or equivalent for his work at that time.
A worthy cause for a small donation to help him keep up the battle. I've made mine, twice now.
cqcq-
Please clarify your point about Iraq and events that happened 39 years ago? Make as many direct comparisons you can between the AQ that slaughtered the village in Iraq, and the supposed events in MyLai. Spell it out for everyone, how the accused in MyLai are just like those AQ in Iraq. Make all details clear, please.
Such as: The NVC controlled the village, using it as a supply centre, and ... This was exactly like the AQ controlling ...
Vietnam man !!
Yeah, power to the people, baby!
cqcq, did you learn anything from the Vietnam, cut and run experience, or perhaps a little to much Jimmy Hendrix experience, for the lesson to take?
Cqcq -
I know it's hard, but try to not be stupid. Just who do you accuse of pulling the trigger on these innocents in Iraq: the Iranian sponsored AQ, the Iraqis, or the Americans?
cq - let's skip a few steps, eh?
China was to NVC as Iran is to AQ.
NVC slaughtered villages in the non-VC areas. AQ has slaughtered villages in any area of Iraq they feel will generate positive (for them) publicity.
What point are you seeking to prove? War is hell? Terrorists are subhuman? or that all Americans, regardless of action or inaction, are evil?