Comments on: Today’s journalistic standards yesterday

By: Earl

Earl — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 21:14:23 +0000

BW, are you aware that your photos are covering at least part of your prose — it’s not just in this post, either….it’s happening now and then, elsewhere. Frustrating, that…

I’m a pretty big free press diehard, but this kind of abuse of power needs a long, hard look. If there are newspapers who use their franchise to support the enemies of the United States, and directly to undermine the war effort of this nation, then they need to face the full consequences of these actions.

Do we have a law that covers this type of activity? Should leakers, reporters, and editors be dealt the real-life consequences of misuse of the free press? Or is this not misuse?

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 01:26:44 +0000

Democrats have the ruthlessness, but obviously their core supporters don’t know one iota about cloak and dagger tradecraft.

It is a big problem when you have to fight the Democrats that leak and the enemy at the same time that are feeding off of the leaks. It’s like fighting a two front war, and our two fronts (conventional and propaganda) are already unbalanced and being set back in the propaganda front.

So it is now a 3 front war.

By: Laer

Laer — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 00:52:00 +0000

The other example that comes to mind is the Japanese balloon invasion of the US, in which incendiaries were attached to high altitude balloons. The balloons eventually lost their lift, the incendiaries fell, and fires started.

The media never reported the fires because the government asked them not to. The Japanese monitored our media reports, saw nothing, and figured the technology wasn’t working. The program was scrapped before any real damage could be done.

Today the media would report it because, after all, the Fourth Estate is the grandest and most ominipotent estate of all.

By: mamapajamas

mamapajamas — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 23:35:15 +0000

Precisely so. After all, the Nazis must have KNOWN that the Allies were working to break their codes. Why would it be a big surprise to the Nazis to learn that they were broken? (rolling eyes)

I’m getting REALLY tired of hearing from people who think that the Islamofascists are all-knowing, all-seeing gurus who already knew that their phone calls and bank records were being tracked, when it’s pretty clear from the successes in catching them that they most certainly did NOT know.

It’s like the business during the Afghan War, when… was it CNN?… broadcast a story where they babbled that the military looking for OBL were tracking al Qaeda’s satellite phones. Al Qaeda promptly stopped using satellite phones, and we lost a great tool for tracking the SOBs. Should they have “known” that we were tracking their satellite phones? They SHOULD have, but they apparently are NOT the techno-gurus that many on the left would have them be. Just as there is no reason to believe that, while they may have been aware that phone and bank transaction may have been tracked, they knew precisely how it was being done. They wouldn’t have done it that way if they knew. QED.

Thanks to the NYT, they now KNOW for sure what was being done and how.