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Myst
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Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 | 12:37 AM
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!! Please don't get her started. |
BugbearSloth
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Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 | 06:16 AM
"Other specific examples were not known, although U.S. national security officials said an emphasis had been placed on influencing how foreign media depict the United States."
I take this to mean that the security officials want the foreign media to portray the US in a bad light.
Just in case "Cynthia" is now really boycotting this site, I'll fill in for her...
SPACE ALIENS have infiltrated the highest levels of the McDonald's corporation. They are putting drugs that genetically modify human beings to turn them into mutant alien slaves! We must all organize and demonstrate and protest and rant and rave and carry on incoherently! This is the TRUTH people! I am a LAWYER and I know the TRUTH when I see it! Can't you people READ? |
Maegan
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Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 | 09:33 AM
I'm not sure what to think about this. On one hand, I don't even think that we should have reporters overseas with the military units. Sure, I watched CNN on the morning Iraq was first bombed. One day schools will show that same footage to schoolkids as part of history. The same way that I watched news reels from Vietnam & Korea. And Blah, Blah, Blah, freedom of speech, freedom of press...Sure it's nice that it's available to us. I just think that people should look at them more like privelages than rights. When 9/11 happened & they kept moving the President & Vice President around...as soon as they had left one destination, reporters knew about it & were speculating where they would be next. The whole point of moving them was to keep another attack from happening to them.
I like knowing what's going on. Do I think it's a good idea to broadcast war news 24 hours a day? No. Give me an update on the evening news & let the troops do their job. No one is broadcasting my job all over the news & CNN so that people can have up to the minute information about car accidents & disasters.
Fine, use the media to lie to the enemy about what we're doing. Whether or not you like the fact that we have American troops in Fallujah, or overseas in general...they need to do whatever they need to do to get their job done. Stick Lt. Hooha in front of a camera and announce that all U.S. troops will be getting icecream & too busy to hold their guns...whatever it takes to break up strongholds & guerilla fare, to get our troops home that much faster. |
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