It's Official: The Press Has Gone To War

Many on the Right have always been suspect of the MSM media when it came to reporting on the Iraq War. While the first official shot may have been CNN showing video of enemy snipers at work, it seems that open hostilities have been declared now that President Bush has begun the infamous surge.

Within the past two days, the New York Times violated a standard ethical constraint when it broadcast video of an American Marine being shot, also reporting his death without officially contacting his family. They are reported to have suffered greatly in the process of viewing it. If there's any justice, they will sue the Times for the little bit that it's still worth.

A CBS journalist / activist has gone the extra mile in attempting to draw attention to a gruesome al-Qaeda video she incorporated into a news report without attribution.

Still, back again to the New York Times - a victory over hundreds of insurgents wasn't reported as a victory at all, simply an episode that raised questions, as it wasn't accomplished easily enough - that according to the Times.

As silly as Jane Fonda taking back her apology, and now apparently back in Vietnam, Turner Broadcasting showed how seriously they take the war on terror, using that very thing for a publicity stunt that closed down a major city.

And still the AP refuses to accept responsibility for its earlier unethical and misleading reporting from Iraq.

Today's disgusting anti-military screed from the WaPo's Arkin should come as little surprise.

Perhaps emboldened by so many Democrats and some Republicans now betraying their very own earlier votes as they muster political opposition to victory in Iraq, clearly the MSM has decided to take the mask off of their own opposition to the Iraq War.

If we thought coverage has been biased up until now, buckle up - it's going to get worse.

Comments

[Jim Treacher]

I'm not really sure Turner Broadcasting intended to use the war on terror to promote their shows. That's just what ended up happening, in just 1 of the 10 cities where the ads appeared.

[Dan Riehl]

Drudge claims someone has been arrested.

[Bill Faith]

Is there really any doubt left whose side they're on? Was there ever? I excerpted and linked; http://www.smalltownveteran.net/bills_bites/2007/01/its_official_th.html

[Patricia]

One can only hope that now, with its gloves off, the MSM will finally convince the few Americans who still take them seriously of their fervid anti-Americanism. More than even the partisan Copperheads during an earlier civil war, these folks are against the US as an idea and a reality and a people.

[Carl]

The coverage is getting worse because the Iraq adventure is getting worse. Only you kool-aid drinking 28%ers think there's any hope left. Tune in to Fox and the Washington Moonie Times for the 'good news'.

[scarshapedstar]

"One can only hope that now, with its gloves off, the MSM will finally convince the few Americans who still take them seriously of their fervid anti-Americanism."

The few, the proud, the 72 percenters.

[TheSpartan]

Someone was arrested, a guy working for TBS who put up the devices, poor shlub is gonna go down for them.

[Ned R.]

I learned long ago, being the son of a military man, that those who denigrate the troops en masse are as obnoxious and stupid as those who think that dissent equals treason. As far as I can tell, Arkin's a doof but you're a blowhard, Dan, and you're both apparently humorless to boot. Which means you deserve each other, each seeing who can scream the loudest about terribly correct you are, to the annoyance of the rest of us. Myself, had I the ability, I'd find a room to lock you both in, so you could enjoy the pleasure of each other's well-deserved company.

[Dan Riehl]

"you're a blowhard"

Quit whining and blow harder, I bet you have it in you.

[DRJ]

This post is spot on. Thank you for tying it all together in one nice, neat MSM package.

[Oregonian]

"Quit whining and blow harder"

More homoerotic fantasies from Dan. Hmm...

[Cindi]

More homoerotic fantasies from Dan. Hmm...

Posted by: Oregonian | Thursday, February 01, 2007 at 01:20 AM

Dan is worth every Hmmmmm.

Someone actually named their kid Ned?

[richard]

Oh, that dreadful MSM! The same MSM that endorsed the war in no uncertain terms, as did most Democrats and most Americans. The NYT and the WaPo led the fray - anyone remember Judy Millers' chemical weapons stories? Elizabeth Bumiller? John Burns' early coverage? Ah, how selective are our memories in here.

We all lined up behind our president, or at least most of us did, at a time of intense suffering in America, and believed he had the resources and the strategy to make good on his word. He did not. The MSM has reacted as have all people of intellect and critical thought - they know a clusterfuck when they see one and have now given up on the president's pipe dream. This is no conspiracy, it's just common sense and human nature and completely understandable. Look what we invested and look what we got back: we are sending more boys into the meat grinder to help people dedicated to America's destruction. George Will, John McClaughlin, Pat Buchanan, Tony Blankley, David Brooks - nearly all those solid to-the-right pundits have agreed, we failed and there are now no good choices. Stop blaming it all on the MSM straw man. Failure is failure. Unless you're wearing rose-coloured spectacles, as so many of you seem to be doing.

[richard]

Oh, that dreadful MSM! The same MSM that endorsed the war in no uncertain terms, as did most Democrats and most Americans. The NYT and the WaPo led the fray - anyone remember Judy Millers' chemical weapons stories? Elizabeth Bumiller? John Burns' early coverage? Ah, how selective are our memories in here.

We all lined up behind our president, or at least most of us did, at a time of intense suffering in America, and believed he had the resources and the strategy to make good on his word. He did not. The MSM has reacted as have all people of intellect and critical thought - they know a clusterfuck when they see one and have now given up on the president's pipe dream. This is no conspiracy, it's just common sense and human nature and completely understandable. Look what we invested and look what we got back: we are sending more boys into the meat grinder to help people dedicated to America's destruction. George Will, John McClaughlin, Pat Buchanan, Tony Blankley, David Brooks - nearly all those solid to-the-right pundits have agreed, we failed and there are now no good choices. Stop blaming it all on the MSM straw man. Failure is failure. Unless you're wearing rose-coloured spectacles, as so many of you seem to be doing.

[Judith]

I'm a 57 year old woman from the state of Massachusetts. My recollection of the MSM and most of the dems (watched them on c-span), they did the very most they could to oppose this country doing ANYTHING in response to 9/11. The speeches on the floor of congress showed their opposition to actually doing anything about the threat that looms. Coming from the state of Massachusetts I must say, they were for it WHILE they were against it. It is amazing how some people can re-write history, shout it from the rooftops, and believe the rest of us will blank out the left's historical opposition and go along with this do over.

[Quentin]

Don't be surprised with the gay stuff out of Dan. It's hereditary.

[pst314]

"The same MSM that endorsed the war in no uncertain terms"

Oh? Don't you remember all the pronouncements about the "deadly Afghan winter"? Or how Saddam's military would bog us down in a bloody quagmire before we could get halfway to Baghdad? How about the frequent calls to "understand" the enemy instead of going to war? And so on and so on. How selective your memory is.

[w3]

It's amazing how the same kids in high school who were obsessed with being different became adults who obsess with being amongst the majority. The same kids who had "Question Everything" stickers on their notebooks became adults who accept whatever the MSM tells them. The same kids who took pride in thinking for themselves take more pride as adults in thinking like everyone else.

Is there an inverse relationship between age and the time it takes a liberal-thinking person to become what he claims to despise?

[Legalize]

"It's amazing how the same kids in high school who were obsessed with being different became adults who obsess with being amongst the majority."

It's amazing that you (a) don't see the difference between clothes, hair, and music v. a disasterous war that was entered into under false pretenses.

"The same kids who had "Question Everything" stickers on their notebooks became adults who accept whatever the MSM tells them. The same kids who took pride in thinking for themselves take more pride as adults in thinking like everyone else."

No, "thinking like an adult" tends to invlove recognizing reality v. fantasy and paranoia, and simply drawing one's based on where demonstrable facts tend to lie, rather than drawing one's lot where one really really really wishes the facts tended to lie

"Is there an inverse relationship between age and the time it takes a liberal-thinking person to become what he claims to despise?"

No. There is a direct relationship between education, maturity, and experience and the methods by which one tends to reason out complex scenarios. Those who are lacking tend to engage in specious sociological analysis, hyperbole, strawmen, defamation, and rank hypocrisy in lieu of factual support. It is a sort of cultish behavior found in the Riehl Wurld.

[markg8]

NBC News is dishonest only interveiwing soldiers who support Bush's war in Iraq. A majority of our general officers, active and retired, no longer support staying the course and neither do soldiers in the ranks. They're smarter than that. Riding around waiting to get blown up or kicking in doors is no way to win a war.

http://www.militarycity.com/polls/2006_main.php

"For the first time, more troops disapprove of the president’s handling of the war than approve of it. Barely one-third of service members approve of the way the president is handling the war, ac cording to the 2006 Military Times Poll."

[yyy]

The Military Times is a left wing moonbat tool of the Hate America, we want to lose contingent, didn't you know?

[sglover]

"I'm a 57 year old woman from the state of Massachusetts. My recollection of the MSM and most of the dems (watched them on c-span), they did the very most they could to oppose this country doing ANYTHING in response to 9/11. The speeches on the floor of congress showed their opposition to actually doing anything about the threat that looms. Coming from the state of Massachusetts I must say, they were for it WHILE they were against it. It is amazing how some people can re-write history, shout it from the rooftops, and believe the rest of us will blank out the left's historical opposition and go along with this do over."

Then your recollection is highly selective. There was essentially ZERO opposition to removing the Taliban regime (sorry, but I don't count a sign waved by some dreadlocked college kid as meaningful opposition). Why don't you name ONE congressperson who object? And during the run-up to our Glorious Mesopotamian Adventure, one of my central memories was intense frustration about the many questions that the supposed bulldogs of the press did NOT ask of Rumsfeld, Cheney, Bush and Rice. You're crazy if you honestly think that the major media outlets didn't completely abdicate their alleged commitment to scepticism.

[Defense Guy]

Nice gems in that article markq8. I like this one:

The poll asked, “How do you think each of these groups view the military?” Respondents over whelmingly said civilians have a favorable impression of the mili tary (86 percent). They even thought politicians look favorably on the military (57 percent). But they are convinced the media hate them — only 39 percent of mili tary respondents said they think the media have a favorable view of the troops.

Sounds about right to me.

[Grover Norquist]

"Everything the advocates of war said would happen hasn't happened... And all the things the critics said would happen have happened."

[judson]

Mission Accomplished

[yyy]

We're turning the corner.

I only wonder, given how many times we've turned the corner if it doesn't indicate that we're traveling in a big circle.

[The Walrus]

"It's amazing how the same kids in high school who were obsessed with being different became adults who obsess with being amongst the majority. The same kids who had "Question Everything" stickers on their notebooks became adults who accept whatever the MSM tells them."

I know at least one liberal (hi!) who, in sharp contrast to apparently every conservative American alive at the time besides Pat Buchanan, never believed a whit of what the "MSM" was telling us about Saddam's WMD or his al-Q ties. Can you say the same?

Seriously, for a conservative to lecture *anyone* on not gobbling-up whatever the MSM dishes-out us all is just absurd. You guys went at it like toddlers with a bowl of pudding - your faces are still covered in it! You're disgusting!

[salvage]

What I find most peculiar about this is that people like Dan notice it more than say the Justice Department, FBI or other government law enforcement agency.

Why is that Dan? How is it that you’re able to spot these traitors yet the people whose job it is to investigate crime and enforce the law do not?

You point out these conspirators and law breakers yet they never get arrested. Weird huh? Maybe the plot is higher up than you think!!!

Are you some sort of super hero? The missing Hardy Boy? Psychic perhaps? You once shook hands with Dan Rather, went into a convulsion and now you’re the only one who knows our terrible fate?

My theory is that you’re a paranoid retard who is so deep in delusions that any ray of reality that breaks through is so blinding that it drives you quite mad.

Er… madder.

But I could be wrong, tell us, how do and your cohorts in whatever wingnut online gaggle you’ve started / joined this week see so much that professionals miss?

[Sarcastro]

Keep digging the hole deeper. You're bound to come out the other side eventually.

[91B30]

sglover: "There was essentially ZERO opposition to removing the Taliban regime (sorry, but I don't count a sign waved by some dreadlocked college kid as meaningful opposition). Why don't you name ONE congressperson who object?"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Lee

[mrsizere]

Let's grant the premise that Iraq was a horrible mistake and is a quagmire. What happens if we pull out?

Anyone want to bet on a nuclear exchange in the Middle East and a nuclear arms race in Asia within 10 years?

What happens if we stay with no change (same casualty rate, same "stratgegy", etc...)?

Anyone want to bet against a nuclear exchange in the Middle East and no nuclear arms race in Asia for the next 10 years?

If America leaves, our allies will, with reason, stop trusting us. That means a nuclear armed Middle East and Asia. Asian countries are, probably, sane enough not to actually use them. The Middle East? Please.

If you think the price in US blood and treasure isn't worth it, fine. However, don't pretend we can just walk away. I personally think it is worth it. I like the 21st century. A nuclear exchange in the ME puts us back to the 18th. Horses stink, especially with no hot water for bathing.

[ThomasD]

Yes, the press has gone to war. They have bided their time, hid their loyalties and now seek to capitalize on some momentum. The mask has once agian slipped and they show their true allegiances.

War it is. But are they truly prepared for the consequences of their actions?

[Quentin]

You armchair warriors are a riot. "The press has gone to war". You idiots watch too much tv.

[inmypajamas]

Anybody who can say that the military is no longer behind the mission is someone who has no personal connection to the military and is willing to stake their entire position on one poll. Talking to those currently serving in Iraq or home on leave gives you an entirely different perspective (how about that NBC segment to start?). Just read the reports of the embeds on the ground there (the ones outside the Green Zone) and the milbloggers who have been there and still have connections to see that the weight of the evidence against that poll is overwhelming.

I am sure I am wasting my breath. Those who want to see Bush "go down" are enjoying every word from the Arkins and the Olbermans and reality has nothing to do with it. They're the "you're not the boss of me" kids you used to babysit, all grown up and still obnoxious.

[prozacula]

"

Let's grant the premise that Iraq was a horrible mistake and is a quagmire. What happens if we pull out?

Anyone want to bet on a nuclear exchange in the Middle East and a nuclear arms race in Asia within 10 years?

What happens if we stay with no change (same casualty rate, same "stratgegy", etc...)?

Anyone want to bet against a nuclear exchange in the Middle East and no nuclear arms race in Asia for the next 10 years?

If America leaves, our allies will, with reason, stop trusting us. That means a nuclear armed Middle East and Asia. Asian countries are, probably, sane enough not to actually use them. The Middle East? Please.

If you think the price in US blood and treasure isn't worth it, fine. However, don't pretend we can just walk away. I personally think it is worth it. I like the 21st century. A nuclear exchange in the ME puts us back to the 18th. Horses stink, especially with no hot water for bathing."

man, what a stupid person you are.

Our allies don't trust us already. If we leave, if we stay, it's too late now, since none of the entire world trusts us anyways.

We screwed it up, but with the present commander in grief, we stay, it will suck, we go, it will suck. Same outcome either way.

But keep clapping louder. Maybe fairies will fly out of your ass and fix Iraq.

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