Is it just me, or should the Sacremento Bee be censured (censured I said, not censored) for publishing this article?
Should the blogger sites I got it from be censured? Should I be?
I dunno. I've been speculating in private with my friends things that I won't generally post on my weblog for some time now. Like my belief that we may already be in Iraq, or that we may have to worry about China moving on Taiwan once we invade Iraq. And so on. Not that I fancy that, with my 200 or so daily readers, I'm even 1% as important as my local paper. Still and all, idle speculation seems unhealthy in wartime.
Yet increasingly, the press has been saying things like this themselves. I guess none of it should concern me. The more idle speculation in the press, the more white noise it creates anyway. But the SacBee piece really upset me. Am I wrong?
I'd have to agree that this is a case of too much information. But I don't blame the "Bee." It the "Bee's" job to gather stories of interest. What could be more interesting to the public than war prep? Instead I blame the military. It was a spokeswoman for the CA National Guard who announced everything but the coordinates for the landing zone.
Well. If the military is publicizing the issue, then they clearly have a reason for it. Perhaps I should just shut up.
Why blame the military? Perhaps publicity is the point.
As I mentioned in a different thread, I think that the Bush administration is running psyops on the Iraquis right now; they'll either cause a meltdown in Iraq, or at least wear down Iraqi resistance that much more for military operations.
Of course it could be that some idiot publicized something they shouldn't have; but I doubt it.