Sunday, November 21, 2004
Next Up
more work to keep America Free...After serving with his unit in Iraq, 2Slick is now serving in Kuwait. “I honestly believe that we are losing the information campaign here. As soldiers fighting this war, we have an obligation to get the word out about what's really going on over here.”
We gotta get this in hand, y'all. The backbone of a free people is an informed people. We ain't got that. We ask our military to soldier -- that's obvious when someone signs on. Now we also ask our soldiers to manage multi-million dollar philanthropic undertakings. [that figure that Capt. 2Slick was personally responsible for distributing wisely is higher than the figure reported by THK et al... just for comparison's sake.] Added skills never hurt anyone's career opportunities. But it concerns me that the soldiers fighting this war feel so unsupported by the society for whom they are fighting that they believe they are obliged to get the word out on what's really going on in Iraq. Was that not what the embeds are assigned to do? Where is Mr. Sites' story on the exit strategy successes -- did I miss it? I'd love to read it. Now that the election kerfluffle is over [for the blue-staters; it is over, done, finished, kaput, try again next time, in the misty past, long gone, ended, but a memory, a faded bloom of history...] It seems to me the most useful work we can lay hands to is the de-construstion and re-construction of the media. It fails to serve us as citizens of a free country, and it has done so for quite some time. Bloggers are but the beginning of the work. It is time to confront head on the dead elephant in the middle of the living room which everyone has been politely avoiding mentioning. MSM, it's Darwin Time -- change or die. . MORE: Aw, crimmanny -- even Howie The Scream sees it!
Dean at Yale: "The media is a failing institution in this country," Dean said. "They are not maintaining their responsibility to maintain democracy." ...Dean said these networks aim to entertain because "entertainment sells better than news." The infamous "scream speech," often blamed for Dean's loss to Sen. John Kerry '66 in the Democratic primaries, was partially a media fabrication because it was appealing for its entertainment value rather than its newsworthiness, Dean said. [I agree completely -C] "The media is trained to get the entertainment value and screw the facts," he said. [I also agree with this completely -C]
Statistics
This page has been viewed 18346056 times
Total Entries: 5718
Total Comments: 4193
Total Trackbacks: 714
Most Recent Entry: 06/14/2011 06:44 am
Most Recent Comment on: 11/27/2011 05:18 pm
{/if}
