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Entries Categorized as 'Old Media'

Media Focus on Heroes

November 13th, 2007 · Comments Off · 20 views

Here are Google searches of the news done about 1430 EST on November 13, 2007.

Both men were awarded the second highest military decoration for valor in November. Jackson on November 2 and Yoakum on November 11.
As we write and complain about the lack of medals being awarded for bravery in the War on Terror, let’s [...]

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Categories: Commentary · Media · Old Media · Original writing · WOT Heroes

David Shuster and MSNBC

September 28th, 2007 · Comments Off · 36 views

OK, Shuster ambushes a Republican Congresswoman about the name of the last soldier from her district to die in Iraq. Initial research suggests he was actually from another district.
Media Blog reports that MediaBistro quotes the Memphis Commercial Appeal that the young man’s home town was in her district.
Gotcha!
DoD press release:
The Department of Defense announced today [...]

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Categories: Analysis · Media · Old Media · Original writing · Television

No Coalition Aircraft Downed

August 17th, 2007 · Comments Off · 10 views

DVIDS
Despite recent Taliban claims reported in some media outlets, the Taliban have not shot down any coalition aircraft or destroyed any armored vehicles, as they claimed this week.
According to other inaccurate media reports, U.S. military spokesperson Army Capt. Vanessa R. Bowman was misquoted.
Bowman’s quote should have read, “This region has provided an ideal environment to [...]

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Categories: Afghanistan · Media · Old Media · War on Terror

The Last Straw

August 17th, 2007 · Comments Off · 16 views

fallen journalists, journalistic mistakes and major and minor screw-ups in the media
Randall Hoven has published a long list at the American Thinker, sixty plus instances. With cites, as any real reporter ought to be doing.

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Categories: Media · Old Media

Iraq and the Media

July 6th, 2007 · Comments Off · 11 views

Matt Sanchez pokes the cry baby media with a stick:
Everywhere I have traveled throughout Iraq, I’ve heard troop horror stories of seemingly friendly reporters “burning” them, but reporters defend themselves. An LA Times correspondent insisted she was meticulous about getting quotes right, another journalist from the Army Times said soldiers sometimes regret saying things that [...]

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Categories: Iraq · Media · Old Media · War on Terror

The Truth and the Media, Total Strangers?

July 1st, 2007 · Comments Off · 10 views

Lamplighter has a great roundup of media dishonesty about the War on Terror.
Go and read.

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Categories: Media · Old Media · Other Bloggers

No Beheadings

June 29th, 2007 · Comments Off · 7 views

Via NRO’s The Tank and the outstanding Confederate Yankee.
AP reported yeaterday:
Twenty beheaded bodies were discovered Thursday on the banks of the Tigris River southeast of Baghdad and a car bomb killed another 20 people in one of the capital’s busy outdoor bus stations, police said.
The beheaded remains were found in the Sunni Muslim village [...]

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Categories: Iraq · Media · Old Media · War on Terror

NBC and the Cho Tapes

April 19th, 2007 · Comments Off · 20 views

Well, I bet all the folks grieving at Virginia Tech and around the country, and the murderer’s family feel so much better now that NBC aired that information. [/sarcasm]
What NBC has done is to make Cho into a cult figure. You Tube versions of his tapes will circulate for decades among angst ridden teens and [...]

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Categories: Commentary · Media · Old Media · Original writing

NT Times Exposes Saddam

November 3rd, 2006 · Comments Off · 4 views

The New York Times, in an effort to spring a November surprise, hands the Bush administration a major propaganda victory.

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Categories: Iraq · Media · Old Media · WMD · War on Terror

Lebanon Ambulance Hoax

August 24th, 2006 · Comments Off · 22 views

Blogger Zombietime finds a real hoax in the reporting from Lebanon.

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Categories: Blogging · EMS · Media · Middle East · Old Media · Other Bloggers · Politics · War on Terror

CNN Rampage

July 10th, 2006 · Comments Off · 14 views

I’m going to follow this story, to see if it turns out to be accurate.

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Categories: Commentary · Iraq · Media · Old Media · Original writing · War on Terror