Interesting blog about the failures of war coverage by the mainstream American media…
Clearly, it’s possible to move around with troops and talk to locals. Yon is doing it. Roggio is doing it. With your support. News reporters have done it by the hundreds when they and their organizations chose to do it. I can’t think of a good reason why these leading news organizations are not doing it in large numbers. It is well-established that embedding is a practical, comparatively safe way to get unfiltered information. The critics, like Hedges back in 2003, have been shown to have grossly misjudged the goodwill of the United States military and the incredible access embedding provides.
I’m probably not qualified to judge, but I have to agree that it’s unbelievably frustrating to try to get good coverage of what’s happening over in Iraq. And this is something that I noticed even while I was there… We’d have launched some important new operation, which was having great results, and offering news releases to the media, who’d say essentially, “Thanks but no thanks,” and would continue with their coverage of Anna Nicole Simpson / Paris Hilton / Britney Spears and/or the unending squabbles in Congress about “failure” in Iraq and when–not if–we should leave. The weird thing about the coverage of the political aspect of the war is that it has NOTHING to do with what’s actually happening out there. The politicians don’t seem to care to connect reality with theory in these debates. It’s quite baffling for an outsider.
AND… Check out the Zionist Death Squirrels™ that Iran’s crack anti-espionage enforcers have apprehended! No, really.
If only GI Joe (or his Iranian equivalent) had been at hand…
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