Conflict Blotter

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• 1 Fuchsbaunews // Aug 17, 2007 at 11:40 am

  Funny? http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2007-08-08T130802Z_01_YAT713362_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-IRAQ-COL.XML

  Well, I am in germany and I can not say if the woman shows UXO or some bullets the photographer gave her. But the trash-talk of so called “rigth-wing specialists” is as always distgusting and proove for nothing.

  “Now, for all you latte-sippin’, gun-fearing, military-hating, anti-US, lefty journalists, below are two pictures that will help you determine whether a bullet held up by a fellow propagandist has, or has not, been fired.” [Has been fired? IDIOT! http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/91.2/images/blackford_fig03b.jpg ]

• 2 AG in Houston // Aug 17, 2007 at 9:54 pm

  With all due respect, many ‘right wing’ attacks on the media are well deserved.

  Too many times, imho, the media has taken sides.

• 3 JG // Aug 18, 2007 at 1:23 am

  I second the comments put forth by AG in Houston.

• 4 greenmamba // Aug 18, 2007 at 3:04 am

  3rd.

  Interaction with journalists leads me to believe that they are mostly “leftist” in thinking, having been trained that way. I can parse most news articles on the hot topics and show you the bias right in the piece. Go further than that and correlate several news sources on one news item and it becomes more obvious.

  A further layer of study is more complex and involve tracking articles over time. I can’t do that but researchers have and they support the charge of bias.

  A pervasive belief system causes journalists who actually do believe they are objective, to indulge in “groupthink” and not be able to see the wood for the trees (to stretch the metaphor). I believe this is a very serious issue that is at the root of the downfall of our western civilisation

  Charles, your heart seems to be in the right place, so the next time you object to one of these attacks, why not mention it here? If it’s a fair piece, I’d be more than willing to debate you in the hopes of getting you to the other side’s point of view.

• 5 Abu Muqawama // Aug 18, 2007 at 3:18 am

  Ha! I saw this. Whatever AFP copyeditor wrote the byline to this photo deserves whatever grief he/she gets.

• 6 Fuchsbaunews // Aug 18, 2007 at 4:26 am

  “downfall of our western civilisation”

  I think the downfall is that a bunch of est. thousands of “specialists” overstate their ambition in such stories to cover the real stories. Army killed woman and children says police. Coalition of the killing denies [as always]. And people get exited about a picture, that can be a fake. Or not.

  Because of that behaviour of the consumers, talk about silly things [and using it to attack some “unpleasant people”] they deserve just what they get. A big joke on the left and on the rigth, and at the top of them.

  No, wait a second. The biggest joke is to think that in the american fascists-system [see blogroll of the link] did something that can be seen as “productive” in the wars they have started.

• 7 greenmamba // Aug 18, 2007 at 10:29 am

  correction: in my last sentence above, I meant to say: “..hopes of getting you to SEE the other side’s point of view.”

• 8 Paul // Aug 18, 2007 at 12:30 pm

  “Whatever AFP copyeditor wrote the byline to this photo deserves whatever grief he/she gets.”

  Copy editors don’t write photo captions. Photo editors do, and regrettably, they don’t appear to be familiar with bullets. The editorial team there is.

• 9 Abu Muqawama // Aug 18, 2007 at 12:55 pm

  Good point, Paul. But wouldn’t the photo editors have been locally-based as well? Why wouldn’t they know the difference between a fired and unfired round too?

• 10 Papa Ray // Aug 21, 2007 at 12:06 am

  I think if there is any “detesting” to be done it should be directed toward the Media, the Congress and the present U.S. Administration.

  They have all done enough to warrant everyone’s antipathy and aversion.

  Papa Ray

• 11 Michael J. Totten // Aug 22, 2007 at 6:39 am

  4th.

  Yes, most journalists are lefties of one kind or another. (There are many kinds.) I’m a journalist and know scads of them. Almost none are conservatives. So it logically follows that the right will criticize the media more than the left.

  And, yes, the takedown of the woman holding unfired bullets is funny. There is no reason left-liberals can’t uncover this kind of journalism malpractice except that they don’t seem to be looking for it as much because they’re more comfortable with the media as it is.

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