USA Today’s military beat reporter Jim Michaels has a tremendously important op-ed in yesterday’s newspaper. Michaels explains how, at a crucial juncture in the Iraq war, in 2006, the Big Media consistently misinformed policymakers and the American public about what was really happening in Iraq.
Michaels charitably attributes this media misinformation campaign to the “fog of war.” A more candid explanation, however, must acknowledge that the Big Media is mostly anti-war, journalistically lazy and unimaginative, and all too willing to participate in the construction of a defeatist narrative that plays into the hands of America’s enemies.
In short, legacy media outlets should not get a pass for their misleading reporting. Instead, they should be held accountable for their journalistic misdeeds and their work discounted accordingly.
Read More: By John R. Guardiano, Spectator
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"Media Misinformation About Iraq and Afghanistan:" Remember when the media was our chief propaganda machine to beat Nazi(Marxist, but racist?) Germany during World War Two? Remember when our our Media was so against fighting in Marxist Vietnam? I don't even want to talk about China's Mao. Times have not really changed at all, have they? Then, I remember that the "spirit of this world" still is Lucifer and Lucifer does not have much time left now that it's approaching the end of 6,000 years does he(she)? Sin equals death. Just sayin
"Remember when our our Media was so against fighting in Marxist Vietnam?"
That's a myth: Actually the media–fearful, corporate-driven conservatives–turned against the war AFTER the majority of Americans did.
JAMES,
AS USUAL YOU PRESENT US WITH NO FACT UPON WHICH YOUR COMMENTS ARE MADE! jUST MORE SPIN! MORE LIES! MORE OF THE SAME OLD! SAME OLD! BS / BULL SHIT WHICH YOU ARE FULL OF AS WELL!
Please don't take my word for it; it's easy to check.
JAMES,
APPLY YOUR DR. GOEBBELS THEORY SOMEWHERE ELSE!
YOU ARE SUCH A MINDLESS GAY LIBERAL JERK!
"Big Media consistently misinformed policymakers"
Why were Bush policymakers relying on media?
"Big Media is mostly anti-war, journalistically lazy and unimaginative"
Lazy and unimaginative, yes (raising the question, do you want "imaginative" media–oh, yeah, most readers here apparently do).
But if it weren't for Big Media and their failure to question the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld lies leading up to the war, we wouldn't be in Iraq at all, and Osama bin Laden might well be dead.
JAMES,
I AGREE WITH CAROL! YOU SINCERELY DO NEED TO CLEAN THE SHIT OUT BETWEEN YOUR EARS! ONCE AGAIN WHERE ARE THE FACTS? JUST SPIN & LIES ONLY BY YOU.
SERIOUSLY YOU NEED TO GET A LIFE!
"ONCE AGAIN WHERE ARE THE FACTS?"
And once again, something easy to check: http://projects.publicintegrity.org/WarCard/?gcli…
Please don't expect me to do all your work for you–I know you have Internet access. Have a good weekend.
JAMES,
DO NOT TEST MY INTELLEGENCE BY SENDING ME TO A LIBEARL WEBB SITE !
YOU ARE TRULY MENTALLY LIKING IN ADDITION TO BEING A GAY LIBERAL
GO PLAY WITH THE BOYS!
CORRECTION: LIBERAL
After reading the lies printed in the Rolling Stones article about Gen. McChrystal and the hastily forced resignation of the top ranked Special Operations commander and now this Wikileaks amazing threat to the very security of the U. S., something has gone seriously awry. What is the media trying to do anyway–also do the Taliban and Alquaeda guys go by the Koran as Muslims.
"After reading the lies printed in the Rolling Stones article about Gen. McChrystal…"
Huh? Even McC didn''t claim RS lied–just that he didn't know that his comments would be quoted. And did you read the article?
Lil Gay Boy James,
Rs printed off the record comments by McChrystal! They committed Journalistic Prostitution!
You know this! So why are you spining it?
Gay Dirt bag!
Believe it or not, I agree with part of what you said (though I don't think your new favorite epithet gives you any more credibility than the previous overused versions): Printing off-the-record comments is unethical. But it's not the same thing as lying, which is the claim Helen made–McChrystal said what the magazine said he did; he just didn't think it would be reported.
LIL GAY BOY JAMES,
I DID NOT INSINUATE THAT RS WAS LYING.
SO FOR ONCE WE AGREE ON THE ISSUES.
BUT YOU ARE STILL A GAY LIBERAL DIRT BAG!