Letters to the Editor
DemoChristian
Published Letters: 104
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Just Why?
[Read the article: What can and cannot be spoken on television]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Just why do those who are supposed to bring us the news bring us narrative, instead?
Just why don't the Rose's and Jenningses of the media ASK questions instead of FRAMING them?
Just why could neither man see the value in the news stories the fell into?
Every other noise merchant was beating the war drum then and is seeking Iraqi absolution now.
The unique perspective of REALITY could have made a career when I was young. Now, it would be career suicide.
The problem isn't these petty men, but the truly petty souls who control them. The men who mold the news to their ends without shame.
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Thank you all
[Read the article: Tactics of the right-wing noise machine]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I believe my friend will sleep until he reaches heaven.
His family and all America need for the madness to end.
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Private Ownership Vs PublicTV
[Read the article: What can and cannot be spoken on television]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ownership is a major problem but public ownership in America would become another propoganda arm under the next Bush.
By all means we should limit the ability of Murdoch to control so much message. But the death knell of broadcast TV may be the bigger enemy.
Since TV news is now supposed to show a profit(no, it wasn't always that way), news has been downsized into entertainment. Networks used to take pride in the assets they deployed in bringing the truth to the public. Now a news anchor makes more than an entire news division used to spend in covering worldwide events. But the networks are paying for faces and Q-ratings, not journalism
Maybe George Soros should start a cable news network. Would have a liberal bias? So does reality.
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Seriously?!
[Read the article: Tactics of the right-wing noise machine]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"But it's comical to see everyone ignore their own noise machines in the form of Keith "this is the special finger" Olbermann, Bill Maher, Jon Stewart, Bill Moyers (and the whole NPR/PBS gang), the NY Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, LA Times, et. ad nauseam.
-- Klooster "
Its not that they have a similar ent toward idealogy that makes them noise....
Our guys tell the truth!!!!!
Guess what your guys spread.
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Seriously?! Part II
[Read the article: Tactics of the right-wing noise machine]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And those newspaper carry as much dren as any Faux Noise Network show.
They limit the debate to those who have already been proven wrong.
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GlennGreenwald
[Read the article: What can and cannot be spoken on television]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]15 minutes
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Repeat
[Read the article: What can and cannot be spoken on television]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I posted this opinion yesterday:
Should Sinan Antoon and Ali Fadhil get a wider, MSM hearing, they will get branded as terrorists by both the noise machine and the Bush team.
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Who Will Rid Me...
[Read the article: Fred Kagan on Monday: "The civil war in Iraq is over"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'd love to see a documentary that alternately shows the predictions and pronouncements of the think tanks you mentioned and the ones who actually got it right.
Perhaps if enough of the public could compare the media darlings who have been consistently wrong next to the men and women who lost their jobs because the didn't, we could rid ourselves of the Kagans and the other chickenhawks.
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Election Violence
[Read the article: Fred Kagan on Monday: "The civil war in Iraq is over"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Have no fear! McCain and the Neocon Cabal are already proclaiming the violence in Iraq as an attempt to keep him from being elected!
That's why Iraqi's fight and die! So they can influence American elections!
Love the ethnocentrism, hate the fact that people will buy it.
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Impetus
[Read the article: Fred Kagan on Monday: "The civil war in Iraq is over"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Isn't it interesting that the last thing that any of the media darling experts want to discuss is HOW we got into this mess?
They always say that no matter how we got here, we must stay now.
But a reasonable exploration of how we got into this travesty may prevent us from making things even worse.
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Derbig Mooser
[Read the article: Fred Kagan on Monday: "The civil war in Iraq is over"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Were you ever in the military?
It is not what you seem to believe it is. They are a cross section of Americana as diverse as any. But they are united in their dedication to the military. Not the US of A, though they may think so. Too much of their training is aimed at instilling the esprit de corps require of any fighting force to break down for partisan reasons.
And if you are suggesting that racismis so rampant in the forces that a Black president would incite mass desertions, you must know something about the troops that I never knew.
I fully expect Obama to either lose in the election or be assasinated afterward. But not by the people in uniform.
Perhaps by people who believe that there is actually something inherently less about black people. You know...a Republican.
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Derbig Mooser Re: My Earlier Post
[Read the article: Fred Kagan on Monday: "The civil war in Iraq is over"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sorry, I'm so snarky. I haven't eaten today.
I hated my time in the Army. But I still love all the people I served with.
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xititjur99
[Read the article: Fred Kagan on Monday: "The civil war in Iraq is over"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bravo!! Or Brava!!
We should have seen it coming when Bush et al. got a free pass after letting us be attacked on 9/11.
They still haven't paid the price for that.
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Apologies To Derbig Mooser
[Read the article: Fred Kagan on Monday: "The civil war in Iraq is over"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I said I'm sorry!!!
You made several good points.
No one will be able to extricate us from Iraq, painlessly. Like Viet Nam, perhaps only an ugly retreat is possible.
If so, the party in power when it happens will eventually pay the price for doing the right thing.
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Good Will Hurting
[Read the article: Fred Kagan on Monday: "The civil war in Iraq is over"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I never assume the good will of a politician. And General officers are politicians. To some extent, any officer trying to make General is.
But I believe that most of the brasshats want to protect their service branch from the ravages of the Great Neocon Experiment.
Bush hasn't broken the military, yet. That's why we are seein pushback re:Iran. Fighting a war on three distinct front with troops stretched thin is not attractive to the people whose careers depend on the troops.
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Mandatory Service
[Read the article: Fred Kagan on Monday: "The civil war in Iraq is over"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am liberal!! BUT....
The framers did not anticipate having a standing army at all times.It was one of many things that the Founding Fathers did not anticipate (like armor-piercing bullets and executive privelege).
But I would LOVE for all nationally elected officials to have served in the military. As enlisted men/women.
There are lessons that can be learned in the service of others that can't be when you are dependent on others to service you.
As for the chickenhawk experts in the media...the media created them and the media can take them away. Viewers and readers need to make it clear to the ownership that we care about that.