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If the military boycotted the mainstream press, that would get their attention and perhaps help them realize that press bias and yellow journalism will be costly.

See this:

The Post Says the Glass Is Completely Empty

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/006959.php

The Washington Post's current contribution to the Kerry campaign is a mega-series on the occupation of Iraq. The first installment, titled "Mistakes Loom Large as Handover Nears," appeared this morning.

Despite its great length, today's article manages the astonishing feat of reviewing the postwar occupation of Iraq without mentioning a single positive development. Not one. Based entirely on anonymous sources, the article chronicles an unrelieved series of misjudgments, errors and failures.

Some of the Post's critique is obviously political. It criticizes the CPA for trying to establish a free market economy. Relying, one suspects, on information from a middle-aged State Department liberal, it describes "...conflict within the occupation bureaucracy [that] set[s] the legions of young staff members chosen for their loyalty to the Bush administration against older, more liberal diplomats from the State Department and the British Foreign Office." And it portrays the Office of Strategic Communicatins as unsuccessful in efforts to reach Iraqis because it "viewed its job as helping Bush to win his next election."

Mostly, though, the Post is just unrelentingly pessimistic. Sometimes in ways that seem disconnected from current developments in Iraq; the uprising sponsored by Moqtada Sadr is viewed as critical evidence of the failure of the occupation, with no mention of the fact that most recently, Sadr has abandoned his insurgency and told his militia to go home.

The bottom line, of course, is that the Iraq reconstruction effort has been delayed and complicated by security problems. But there is no apparent ground for declaring the occupation a failure. Authority is being handed over to a temporary government; a new constitution is in place; elections will be held. Security will ultimately depend on the Iraqis, not on us. But that was always true. Whether a positive result will emerge from Iraq remains to be seen, as does the impact of Iraq's liberation on other Arab countries. Already, however, we have seen movements toward democracy spreading around the region.

Our efforts in Iraq may yet fail, but it is hard to see the Post's one-sided assessment as a realistic contribution to our understanding of what is happening there.

LewWaters · Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2004 3:28 pm Post subject:

For a boycott to work, it would need to be more than just the Military. If as many of us that could stopped buying their papers, turned off the alphabet channels and canceled subscriptions to left leaning rags, maybe they would get the message. Of course, we would also have to tell them why we were canceling.

When I canceled my subscription to the local paper I told them I was fed up with their liberal interpretation of the news and everytime they contact me for a resubscription, I remind them of that and refuse it.

CBS, ABC, NBC all have websites we can contact them through. Their money is from viewers through advertisers and if they lose that, they have to change or fall by the wayside.

If only the Military boycotts them, they will just cry Government censorship, freedom of the press and other such garbage. So, it would have to be coming from the general citizenship as well. Grassroots can get the word out, but we all have to be doing it and encouraging the rest to also.

nakona · Lieutenant Joined: 04 Jun 2004 Posts: 242

I honestly wouldn't mind the media constantly criticizing the war if it was in the spirit of CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM.

But it's not. It's like a game of "gotcha!" and they are playing with the lives of our troops and the future of Iraq.

Disgusting behavior.
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Theresa Alwood · Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2004 4:51 am Post subject:

Why don't someone (this week I have very little time), do some research get the names, e-mails address of the top execs at ABC, NBC, CBS and CCN so we can all send them e-mail tellimg them why we are no longer watching their news. I would be more than happy to give my 5 cents worth to the liberal media. I can tell people in more than one ways what @ss's they can be! Laughing

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Theresa Alwood · Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 3:29 am Post subject:

Thanks. I did see it on the other post and I already sent them all an e-mail. I just think maybe if we can get some organization going on maybe them we can force the liberal media to be more turthful. We can hope.

Jeremy Eaton · Seaman Apprentice Joined: 08 May 2004 Posts: 90

I like to get my news from a variety of sources. I would assume one would be able to get a much more objective perspective that way.

Big Kahuna · Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 1:10 pm Post subject:

I started my Boycott a couple years ago

Fox News and News Max is all I need.
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