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Originally posted by Displaced Flames fan@Dec 10 2004, 09:06 PM
Well, I'm not sure what how a newspaper chooses to report a story has to do with Americans being gullable....but....
Here's what I think about the situation.
Maybe the reporter should have mentioned that he planted the question in the article he wroter for HIS newspaper.
But, to think that a US soldier would ask the Secretary of Defense a question of that nature without believing in the question himself is D U M B. I wonder, was the applause planted too? That makes the planting of the question irrelevant. The only ethical responsibility the reporter had was to his readership in Chattanooga.
Ridiculous.
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I think what Rouge is saying is very similar to what I said earlier. I said watch the story change from one of having real significance (the military is poorly equiped, which is hard to believe when you consider the budget) to one where the media is chastized and becomes the "important" story with the quasi-news and the people. The play this is getting goes exactly to script. Someone breaks a story on a serious issue and then spends the next two weeks being vilified in the RW media as being a left wing unAmerican wacko. Its been the modus operandi of the Bush admin since they took office in 2001. It wouldn't be so bad if it were not so predictable. You can count on it happening as the Whitehouse's best form of damage control. Again, there are those that say the media has a liberal bias, but they have yet to explain how quickly the media jumps on someone for making a less than flattering report against the Whitehouse. It's a strange and wonderous thing. The "liberal" media providing high cover for the neo-conservatives in office. I still laugh thinking some people haven't seen the obvious conflict in ideology and in terms.