Wednesday, February 06, 2008
The Media - The beat goes on
I am almost a total skeptic about everything reported by our media, and here's one of those articles I can use to justify my opinion.
The media's behavior borders on deplorable, as this brief description of history shows. Unfortunately, it seems to have become even worse since then...
The media's behavior borders on deplorable, as this brief description of history shows. Unfortunately, it seems to have become even worse since then...
Arthur Herman writes about them in the Wall Street Journal:
"Their own panic deeply colored their reportage, suggesting that the communist assault had flung Vietnam into chaos.
Their editors at home, like CBS's Walter Cronkite, seized on the distorted reporting to discredit the military's version of events. The Viet Cong insurgency was in its death throes, just as U.S. military officials assured the American people at the time. Yet the press version painted a different picture."
