Comment Rescue: “This article will piss you off”
Thanks to one of my favorite commenters, Von Cracker, for the link to this Digby piece. There are so many of these guys in the process here. Some of these guys have no sense of history or what America really stands for.
Tags: Bush
I think we all know just how absurd the reporting — and, worse, the editorializing — was in the run up to the war. It was a low point for American journalism. But I have long thought that one of the reasons for this was less laziness or support for the war or even ratings and circulation (although they all played a role.) It was a very unseemly and immature desire on the part of certain journalists to go out and play war correspondent, a little wet-dream at which I’m sure the real war correspondents scoffed when they realized that these pampered, perfumed princes were going to be “embedded” with the military and then debriefed by operatives like Wilkinson.
So many of the reporters were invested in their phony Ernie Pyle acts that it’s a testament to just how gargantuan a failure this war actually was that we know anything at all today. Imagine if the cock-up had only been half as bad. We’d be building monuments to Paul Bremer.
Just like Celia living out her childhood dreams of being part of the action – but on a much larger, more tragic scale.
Pitiful.
Thanks for the bump!
The embedding process needs to go. It’s just another tool for the administration to form propaganda.