"How Do We Win The War Against The Media?"
Dean
"How do we win the war on the media?" asks a soldier. "How do we win the propaganda war?"
This was asked by a soldier in a Q&A with Donald Rumsfeld today in Iraq.
Rumsfeld's response: That sounds like a question that was planted by the press [perfect comedic pause, appreciative audience laughter]. That happens sometimes. We have freedom of the press. We believe that democracy can take all the views and synthesize the right decision. Out here it's much harder [to deal with] the constant negative approach. I guess what's news has to be, bad news. The truth is, however, that it gets through eventually. There are thousands of acts of kindness and compassion. The internet is helping . . . critiquing and debating [MSM coverage] . . .
Why do I not see this quotation making anywhere near as much press as the question about armor?
Message for the mainstream press: even the people on the ground in Iraq know you don't believe in their cause and, as a result, you concentrate on bad news and ignore the good news whenever you can. This isn't the first example of this, it's nowhere near an isolated incident. We've seen it over and over and over again from people serving over there: more good than bad happens over there every day, but the news media is so unpatriotic and so uncaring, they actually think reporting good news is "carrying water for the administration."
More right here.
(Via the big guy, who has more you should read.)
What will be really annoying is that 30 years from now we'll all be ancient geezers and we'll be watching President Bush's state funeral and all the media will be running retrospectives lauding his courage and leadership during the War on Terror...teary-eyed interviews with old veterans, commentary by former Bush Administration staffers, eulogy by President George P Bush (hey, it's bound to happen)...and those of us who remember will grit our teeth and just bear it...
And his answer was much longer than the part you have in italics, too. He mentioned schools opening and the like, and that there are lots of people in America who believe in the troops and what they are doing. I hope someone can get a transcript of the full answer out, because I thought it was very good.
However, I also should ask what you thought of "The Control Room," the documentary about Al Jazeera?
The MSM no longer is a trusted source to report objectively the news of the day without spinning it to it's own political agenda. They probably have done this all along I guess. It's just more blatant nowadays:
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Here's a story that deserves an airing in the open but the MSM is too timid to break the story. They're all waiting on the edge of the pool for some other sucker to jump in first. This is one hell of a story. This is a medical mystery detective thriller with "All the President's Men" all rolled into one screeplay.
What is at risk is the lives of our children and their children from greed and lack of professional medical ethics that has run amuck and unchecked in the vaccine industry. Now this is a bioweapon to beat all weapons.
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On a good note, it wasn't many years ago it was probably 90+ in a hundred so it's getting better. We can thank Dan Rather for a 10-20% shift so let's hope more bias fraud is exposed in 2005.
Still find it hard to believe that Afganistan is being ignored by the press.
Do you see where I'm going here and the speed by which it is occurring? The genie is now out of the bag. No longer can repressive gov'ts and ruling despots control the free flow of information. They can no longer control by the BIG LIE.
Blessed Be For the Internet and the Blogosphere
Ron