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- Motown Bronco - 05-16-2005 09:57 AM
So it looks like a Koran wasn't flushed down the toilet after all...
<a href='http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=8495126' target='_blank'>http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?t...storyID=8495126</a>
Meanwhile, popular columnist Mitch Albom's usage of others' quotes is under investigation...
<a href='http://www.freep.com/news/metro/review16e_20050516.htm' target='_blank'>http://www.freep.com/news/metro/review16e_20050516.htm</a>
But wait a second. This can't be right. According to the left-of-center crowd, the only news organization that embellishes and errs in its reporting is Fox News. :rolleyes:
- blah - 05-16-2005 10:29 AM
Motown Bronco Wrote:So it looks like a Koran wasn't flushed down the toilet after all...I am trying to figure out what these f'ing a-holes at these magazines, papers, and TV stations think they are accomplishing by publishing stories like this. It does nothing except incite riots and get people killed or in some cases point out weaknesses in our national defense systems. I am all for free press, but truly what does this accomplish?
<a href='http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=8495126' target='_blank'>http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?t...storyID=8495126</a>
It is like telling your friend his/her baby is ugly. While true, does it really accomplish anything except pissing someone off?
- ccs178 - 05-16-2005 11:24 AM
Good summary of current news on this: <a href='http://mhking.mu.nu/archives/082219.php' target='_blank'>http://mhking.mu.nu/archives/082219.php</a>
- DrTorch - 05-16-2005 11:39 AM
But wait, there's more!
The Sacramento Bee lost a 'journalist', after questions about her sources couldn't be answered.
This reference
<a href='http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/latimests/20050513/ts_latimes/newspapercolumnistresignsafterinquiry' target='_blank'>http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/l...gnsafterinquiry</a>
has a nice list of other recent incidents, that somehow aren't being widely reported.
Meanwhile, we're being told that journalists are protecting our liberties...and some are suggesting this is a conspiracy against journalistic integrity. :laugh:
Ain't nothing new though
Quote:Even in peacetime I think those are very wrong who say that schoolboys should be encouraged to read the newspapers. Nearly all that a boy reads there in his teens will be known before he is twenty to have been false in emphasis and interpretation, if not in fact as well, and most of it will have lost all importance. Most of what he remembers he will therefore have to unlearn; and he will probably have acquired an incurable taste for vulgarity and sensationalism and the fatal habit of fluttering from paragraph to paragraph to learn how an actress has been divorced in California, a train derailed in France, and quadruplets born in New Zealand. C. S. Lewis
- Tigers2B1 - 05-16-2005 12:11 PM
It just stinks. It reminds me, in a way, of the CBS / Dan Rather scandal. Just more problems with 'one anonymous source' and the lack of any discernable journalistic standards. Now what about holding those responsible for this wrong, accountable?
- JTiger - 05-17-2005 07:16 AM
Tigers2B1 Wrote:It just stinks. It reminds me, in a way, of the CBS / Dan Rather scandal. Just more problems with 'one anonymous source' and the lack of any discernable journalistic standards. Now what about holding those responsible for this wrong, accountable?I sort of agree with you. I think journalists and editors should use some judgement when publishing these stories that may be used to anger enemy troops against our own. However, where do we draw the line to what is proper journalism? When we start to do that, we end up like the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany. IMHO, we should vote with our dollars and read other periodicals we think are as high in quality as responsibility. There is my $0.02.
- blah - 05-17-2005 09:10 AM
JTiger Wrote:I agree with you. I am definitely not for censorship or Big Brother running the news agencies. And I am all for pointing out problems within an organization, whether that be the government or a corporation. However, I am not sure that telling the whole world that our Humvees don't have enough armor and that if you were to put a bomb in the right location, it would kill everyone on board, is the right way to fix an inadequate armor problem. Unless of course you are looking for martyrs. Seems to me there is a better way to point out a deficiency. Even if the government acted immediately after the announcement, you have essentially given our enemies a 6 month to 1 year head start at killing our troops.Tigers2B1 Wrote:It just stinks. It reminds me, in a way, of the CBS / Dan Rather scandal. Just more problems with 'one anonymous source' and the lack of any discernable journalistic standards. Now what about holding those responsible for this wrong, accountable?I sort of agree with you. I think journalists and editors should use some judgement when publishing these stories that may be used to anger enemy troops against our own. However, where do we draw the line to what is proper journalism? When we start to do that, we end up like the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany. IMHO, we should vote with our dollars and read other periodicals we think are as high in quality as responsibility. There is my $0.02.
- moloch_322 - 05-17-2005 05:00 PM
It sounds like a BIG whoops anyway you look at this incident - whether it being factual or not.