The Must Watch Video For The Media
At least one honest reporter right now who realizes that there is a massive – truly massive – problem in media coverage of the war in Iraq. The UPI's Pamela Hess flat out says that the country is getting screwed because of the press coverage. Thank you, Ms. Hess. Thank you. More at Instapundit. Transcript here.
KURTZ: Pam Hess, has the sending of 20,000 additional troops gotten a fair hearing in the media or has it gotten caught up in this wrenching, emotional debate about whether the war itself was a mistake?
PAM HESS: I think it's gotten caught up about it, and the debate about it is actually all wrong. What reporters know and what Martha says is that 20,000 really isn't that big — isn't that big a jump. We're at 132,000 right now. It's going to put us even less that we had going in going across the line.
What we're not asking is actually the central question. We're getting distracted by the shiny political knife fight. What we need to be asking is, what happens if we lose? And no one will answer that question. If we lose, how are we going to mitigate the consequences of this?
It's so much easier for us to cover this as a political horse race. It's on the cover of "The New York Times" today, what this means for the '08 election. But we're not asking the central national security question, because it seems that if as a reporter you do ask the national security question, all of a sudden you're carrying Bush's water. There are national security questions at stake, and we're ignoring them and the country is getting screwed.
We can not just walk away from Iraq. For our own sake as a nation and to stop the bloodbath that will happen if we do. The media right now is not helping us as a nation. There is at least one reporter honest enough to admit that.
UPDATE: Others: Jules Crittenden, Don Surber, Ace of Spades, Jay Reding, Democracy Project, The Political Pit Bull, Ed Driscoll, Media Lies,
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Blue Crab Boulevard » Toxic Corrosion — January 25, 2007 @ 8:51 am
By Jack, January 14, 2007 @ 11:11 pm
No one ever walks away from anything.
That is an illusion spawned and promoted by those who know nothing of history.
We do not lose our obligations merely because we lose our will. History makes an unaviodable return of what we desire to ignore.