Friday, July 25, 2008

Reporter's Just Don't Get It

This article in the New York Times discusses reporters who lament that they can't publish graphic pictures of dead US soldiers. One even calls it censorship. Do the reporters just not get it that when they continually misrepresent what is going on in Iraq soldiers don't trust them anymore. The reporters are all waiting for that big scoop of a US soldier mistreating, or killing a civillian so they can win their Pulitzer. What if a soldier makes a heroic rescue of a civillian or another soldier? Well that's not that interesting? Then they wonder why they get cut off from access and barred from bases.
If someone comes to my house and with that access into my personal life decides to say negative things to other people (whom I have no way of defending myself agains) I would stop inviting him over. Seems pretty basic concept to me.