Contributed by: filbert Tuesday, June 06 2006 @ 06:43 PM CST
To get the true context of how fairly any newspaper or media outlet is treating the military in general, and this war in particular, news consumers should consider how long it had been since that same source focused the same energy on the war. For some outlets, the last time the war really splashed was with Abu Ghraib. But if the reality of the war or the true nature of our military men and women were to be accurately represented in column inches, newspapers would be filled with the stories of Ben Morton[*3] , Walt Gaya[*4] , Brandon Huff[*5] , Sgt Mesa[*6] , Mary Prophit[*7] , Tim Boggs[*8] , Mark Bieger[*9] , and Colonel Robert Brown[*10] , whose soldiers fought like hell for Mosul, and won. Amidst that kind of coverage, the Haditha story would find its true context.If you're not reading Michael Yon and the other warbloggers, and are just getting your Iraq information from Big Media, then you are not getting a complete story. If you have an opinion on the Haditha incident (pro- or anti-military) then you really need to reconsider your biases and assumptions, because no one outside the immediate investigation has enough information to form a meaningful opinion on the matter.Until the facts are released by the investigating authorities, we might benefit from a new sign:
WARNING
Speculating is Strictly Forbidden —
Violators Will be Fined
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