(May 24, 2005) -- Where, in the week after the Great Newsweek Error, is the comparable outrage in the press, in the blogosphere, and at the White House over the military's outright lying in the coverup of the death of former NFL star Pat Tillman? Where are the calls for apologies to the public and the firing of those responsible? Who is demanding that the Pentagon's word should never be trusted unless backed up by numerous named and credible sources?
Ok lets review. The JOB of the media is to report the news and when people in power do something that is say ooooh harmful (say the Pat Tillman incident) to hold their feet to the fire over it. So when these guys go slap dash on their job or make up ludicrous allegations then we have a serious problem.
Now, if the pentagon's word was trusted... then Newsweek wouldn't have a story and neither would you so QED you are a moron
The Tillman scandal is back in the news thanks not to the military coming clean but because of a newspaper account. Ironically, the newspaper in question, The Washington Post -- which has taken the lead on this story since last December -- is corporate big brother to Newsweek.
Oh I am sorry I thought the fact Pat Tillman's family has made a hard court media assault on the issue was why it was in the news. you know we little people can't do anything ourselves without our massa's in the media telling us what to do.
yes WashPost printed it but it printed it... because these people made news
While military officials' lying to the parents have gained wide publicity in the past two days, hardly anyone has mentioned that they also lied to the public and to the press, which dutifully carried one report after another based on the Pentagon's spin. It had happened many times before, as in the Jessica Lynch incident.
no no because after all.... we have to be told that. I mean we can't figure out when their is a wholllleeee fact story sold that needs another story to say "spank on you pentagon" we need to be told just the depth of their lie because without Massa media telling us we be to stupid
Newsweek made a bad mistake in its recent report on Koran abuse at Guantanamo. But it was a mistake, not outright lying. Yet the same critics who blasted the magazine -- and the media in general -- are not demanding that same contrition or penalties for anyone in the military
tell you what when the media stops pretneding they are out to police abuses in the system we will stop demanding they be factual
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