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Originally posted by Coramoor
What I am saying is that I do not trust the media in dealings with the military. I think there is a strong biases against the military in most instances and I know from second hand experiences that the vast majority of what is reported in Iraq right now is not even close to the truth.
Why do you suppose that is? The military itself is controlling the information flow to the media almost entirely in this conflict.
You can take your second hand information if you like. I've been on both sides of the table on this one. So personally, I'll just go with my experience.
By the way, did you notice that President Bush went out of his way to name and honor the two reporters who died in Iraq just yesterday, and compliment the media? Actually, if he's happy with the reporting, that worries me a little.
For every honest reporter looking for social justice there are probably about ten reporters that only want to hand in the next 'big' story to get their name out. Whether their accusations are true or not, or whether they will do a great deal of harm to those involved doesn't matter a wit to those types of reporters.
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Clearly you have made up your mind due to your second hand information. You're wrong. There are damned few of the kind of reporter you're describing. Naturally, everyone is looking for good stories, but 99.999% will go out of his/her way to get responses from all sides of the issue. If one side or the other doesn't choose to comment or chooses to tell less than the truth and gets caught, it's their fault.
Have you ever met a reporter face to face?
By the way, I hope you weren't calling me Honey -- I didn't question your quotes.
ETA Just as I signed off GC last time, I ran across this Associated Press story on the AOL home page. Doesn't seem anti-military to me.
SCIO, N.Y. (May 1) - Mourners Saturday filled one of Cpl. Jason Dunham's favorite places - his high school gym - for the funeral of the Marine, who died in Iraq after using his own body to shield his men from an attacker's grenade.
The gym, packed with more than 1,500 people, is the largest gathering space in the upstate New York town of Scio, where Dunham grew up. His casket rested beneath a basketball hoop.
Dunham, 22, died just over a week ago from wounds he sustained April 14 in Iraq.
A report from the Marine Corps said Dunham was commanding a check point near Karbala when a man got out of a car and tried to flee. Dunham tackled the man, who then pulled a pin from a hand grenade. Dunham dove onto the grenade before it exploded, the Marines reported. Two other Marines were injured.
Dunham, with K Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, was remembered in Iraq on Thursday at a service attended by more than 500 Marines, sailors and soldiers, the Marines reported.
Dunham "never judged anyone and he never judged the people over there," friend Justin Lambert said at Saturday's funeral. "He was just doing his job. He's going to be missed."
As a long procession of cars and walkers accompanied the casket to the nearby cemetery, Scio residents sat on their porches and children lined the sidewalk. An American flag was draped above the highway.
Dunham's parents, carrying the tri-folded flag that had draped their eldest son's coffin, and their three younger children were escorted by the Marines to an awaiting car.
"The Marine Corps have really showed us how much this means to them," said Cpl. Dunham's father, Dan. "They've been very good to us."