American Thinker: Media Dishonesty MattersGullible saps, ain't we?We are being fed false and misleading information, in matters big and small. It has come from trusted sources such as established newspapers, experienced journalists, Pulitzer Prize winners and Nobel Peace Prize winners. It has been going on for a long time, sometimes by carelessness and sometimes by deliberate lying. I have compiled a list of 101 such incidents.
Did you know that Time magazine and other news organizations had a Vietnamese communist on full-time staff in Viet Nam during that war? Do you remember that ABC, CBS and NBC have all rigged cars or trucks with explosives or other devices to make them look dangerous on TV, or that Consumer Reports lied about the Suzuki Samurai enough to put it out of business? Do you know that multiple "veterans" of the Viet Nam and Iraq wars who told of atrocities there were never even in the military? Did you realize reputable news organizations such as the Boston Globe and Reuters cannot tell the difference between a real soldier and a toy doll, commercial pornography and soldiers committing rape, a burning tire dump and a bombed building, a fired and an unfired rifle round, or footage of the North Pole and a clip from the movie Titanic?
J.
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Do you remember the skipper of a river patrol boat in Vietnam who asked to be relieved of duty after only four months in combat. His rational for requesting relief was he had been awarded his third Purple Heart for injuries received in combat.
In spite of the fact that none of his injuries were sufficiently serious to keep him from carrying out his duty as commander of a river patrol boat the military agreed to his request and sent him home.
Upon his discharge he immediately wrote a book "exposing" the atrocities he had 'personally witnessed being waged against the innocent people of Viet Nam by the brutal American invaders.' After the publication of his book he was invited to relate his experiences in Viet Nam before a Senate investigating committee.
Thirty-three years later this ex-navy commander who abandoned his men on the field of battle ran for President of the United States on his war record.
With the support of most of the major media outlets and the leaders of the Democratic party he gathered 59 million votes and carried 20 states.
He lost the election by 2.5% of the popular vote and 37 votes in the electoral college.
otpu
Posted by Otpu | October 17, 2007 1:40 AM
Posted on October 17, 2007 01:40
If you're interested what the Army Corps of Engineers is doing about Georgia's severe water shortage check this site out.
http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/uv?02334430
I couldn't find a graph of the total water released each day but you can get an idea by checking the width of each spike on the second graph. The vertical on that graph shows Buford Dam's discharge rate in cubic feet per second and the horizonal is indexed by elapsed time.
Notice the narrow spikes for Sun. and Mon. the 14th and 15th when Media coverage of the Corps' action was at its max and the much fatter spikes for Tues. and Wed.
otpu
otpu
Posted by Otpu | October 17, 2007 5:36 PM
Posted on October 17, 2007 17:36
Whooops. I checked the graph again and noticed that I got the dates wrong on the narrow spikes.
should be Sat and Sun, Oct 13 and 14.
otpu
Posted by Otpu | October 17, 2007 5:42 PM
Posted on October 17, 2007 17:42