Published on 10/01/05 at 22:38:21 GMT by Andy Alkaline
I remember hearing something about during the Vietnam era that the media was blamed for covering so many of the Antiwar demonstrations and peace protest activities. This was one of the factors that supposedly led to low morale and the eventual withdraw of American troops from Vietnam, and why we lost the war. Some of that info is based on opinions, of course. There are many factors involved when discussing the Vietnam War, but I mention those before I give link to this article on FAIR - Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
I won't go into a who's right article and create a little war on Site Library either, but anybody that would like to throw in two cents, remember that opinions are opinions, insults are insults, criticism is criticism, debate is debate, and no one wants to hear an opinion from someone who won't listen to others' opinions.
Hundreds of thousands of Americans around the country protested the Iraq War on the weekend of September 24-25, with the largest demonstration bringing between 100,000 and 300,000 to Washington, D.C. on Saturday.
But if you relied on television for your news, you'd hardly know the protests happened at all...
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Too Much CNN Here
Written on 10/02/05 at 02:21:44 GMT by Jos
I turned on CNN on Sept 11 2001 and have hardly turned it off since. For about 2 years I was taking notice every time one of the newspersons changed their tone of voice. Finally I'm growing away from doing that as much, although still those terrorists have me scared. Now once in awhile I even change the channel and watch something else.
It's hard to believe it, but I just realized the other day that we are not getting full coverage of the news here. Seems that CNN picks an event to focus on, and for at least the next couple of weeks we don't hear about anything else. So I'm not surprised about the story on CNN not covering anything other than the Katrina and Rita floods since they still are showing videos of it today.
But I'm surprised to hear that it is not only CNN who is not covering all the news.
However, the sentiment of the families of those men and women we've lost in the war is something to consider when plastering the news with anti-war sentiment. They didn't mind covering the Cindy Sheehan protests following her loss of her son. I got turned off of that story when she said "If there is any family who says that they believe their child died for a noble cause, I say, that is your right. If that helps you get through the day, if that helps you in your pain, because we might not have the same politics but, trust me, we have the same pain." It doesn't looks so bad in print, but the way she said it sounded to me like she meant that those who didn't believe their sons died in vain were living in a fantasy, or in denial. I didn't think that was right for her to say that in a speech that was being aired nationwide.
CNN did have a story about it here , but it's not much of a story. I heard something about the protest, but I had no idea it was anything of that magnitude.
Hard Issue
Written on 10/02/05 at 02:45:56 GMT by Andy Alkaline
I think this is one of the reasons Vietnam lasted so long. No one wanted to believe their sons and daughters were dying for political reasons (it's been suggested that one of the reasons for engaging in Vietnam was to pursue the Cold War against China and the Soviet Union), and not for the nobly-stated cause of liberating South Vietnam. Then it turned out that many of the South Vietnamese didn't want the US there anyway. Heck, that's what the VC (Viet Cong) were, they were South Vietnamese children, teenagers, adults allied with the NVA (North Vietnamese) against the United States.
Is this one of the reasons why the Iraq War is now being compared to Vietnam? These "Insurgents" are Iraqui citizens are they not? They believe they are fighting for their freedom, just as the VC believed the same, against the "evil" American Empire. It sounds like morale is low there, because there are more doubts rising about the real reason the US is there.
Perhaps I should be more afraid of "terrorists." I am rather confused why they chose primarily government targets during the 9/11 attack. Would there not have been more damage, both biological, economic, long-term.. if they had crashed a plane into a nuclear power plant, or downtown New York, or some other target? If they wanted to just attack and kill Americans, I would think that there would have been more fatalities. They are obviously very focusses and intelligent if they can hi-jack 4 planes simultaneously. It takes incredible patience and long-term strategy to plan something that well. I didn't even realize until the time of their attack that there were government offices in the Trade Towers.
If ever one would say that soldiers died in Vietnam for a less-than-noble cause, I would have to say that their deaths will hopefully end any future unjust wars more swiftly, or prevent them completely, thereby saving millions of lives in the long-term.
I couldn't say for sure if Cindy Sheehan is correct, or if this war is wrong, but it seems incredibly strange that there is a war on, and not very many people seem to understand *exactly* why it's going on. I would think that WWII, the Civil War, WWI, etc.. were much more explainable. I was not alive for any of the mentioned wars, so I am lacking in several areas. Perhaps there will be other people to fill in gaps or offer corrections if I've made any errors in my little history lesson.
Staged Capture?
Written on 10/02/05 at 10:11:13 GMT by Andy Alkaline
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