1 The narcissism and elitism of our Fifth Column Fourth Estate strikes again.

2 Strike, not strikes. Sorry.

3 I couldn't figure out why it was such big headline news either. One mention would have sufficed.

4 It's okay Insomniac, given the state of our libtard run reeducation camps, very few people would catch the mistake.

5 Ah, Bluto, you have touched on one of my pet peaves. While attending college I started working part time for a newspaper as a staff reporter, worked my way up to sports editor, then to news editor, and finally to managing editor. My major was in geology.

The point I'm trying to make is that the newspaper and media business is pretty easy stuff. These people who major in journalism and media studies are hardly what one would call the intelligent students, and are normally too slow for math and science. Most of them I met were yearbook editors and such in high school and were looking for something easy after they lost their interest in elementary education.

6 Oh, yeah, and there is one other thing that really pisses me off about these media people. They can cover something a time of two and then they try to pass themselves off as experts on the subject. And apparently the people who manage them allow it. That flames my britches, I tell you.

7 Not much to be said that hasn't been said already, but I'll add this: war correspondents consider themselves to be the epitomy of field reporting. Everyone else, even other journalists are way below them. Just a few weeks ago, wasn't a plane load of journalists lost enroute to Iranian military exercises? Did anyone, including journalists come down on the Iranian government for it?

8 An uncle of mine is a professor of journalism at a major state university, (I won't say which one of course because the moonbats might start stalking him too, then I'd have to go on a killing spree), and he is disgusted by the state of the modern media. The ironic thing is that he has taught in countries where the press is government controlled, and he says that students from the repressed countries have a much better grasp on the ethics of journalism, whereas most American students just want to be propagandists for the dhimmicraps.

9 i posted on this days ago. befire the Hess article.

i just reposted with her info.

NEWSANCHOR INJURED IN IRAQ!!! TIME TO REDEPLOY ALL REPORTERS!!! UPDATED AND BUMPED UP: THE TROOPS AGREE WITH ME!

TELEVISION ANCHORMAN INJURED IN IRAQ!!! IRAQ IS STILL DANGEROUS FDOR REPORTERS!!! WHAT MUST WE DO?

"Staying the course in Iraq is not an option or a policy for the MSM. I believe we must begin discussions for an immediate re-deployment of all MSM reporters from Iraq. Some claim the answer is to put even more reporters on the ground, but many of our reporters are already on their third deployment, our MSM cannot recruit to its current target, even as they lower recruiting standards.

My plan calls for a more rapid turnover of reporting in Iraq to the Iraqi reporters. MSM reporting in in Iraq is a major driving force behind the insurgency. The MSM has become a catalyst for violence. That's why we must redeploy reporters immediately!"

(SATIRE OFF.) First, I want to extend my condolences to the Woodruff anf Vogt families. I am praying for their swift and complete recovery.

Now.... here's the truth:

EXCEPT FOR THE FACT THAT ACCIDENTALLY ONE OF THE VICTIMS IN THIS ATTACK WAS A CELEBRITY, THERE IS NO NEWS-WORTHINESS IN THIS STORY.

The enemy hasn't surrendered and they continue to target soft targets: mosques; funerals; weddings; children getting candy; Iraqi police; Iraqi Army and and reporters riding in Iraq Army vehicles.

My sarcastic little pitch was only meant to further expose Murtha and his Leftie comrades, fellow appeasers, dupes, and doves who MISCONTRUE THE DATA (IOW: LIE) and advocate cutting and running. Cutting and running is a stupid policy and a worse strategy. Why does the Left advocate the wrong policy, a policy of premature withdrawal and appeasement!? THEY ALWAYS HAVE. They ran out on the South Vietnamese, they abandoned the CONTRAS, and they would do the same to the Iraqis - and the Israelis.

The best strategy is to destroy the enemy. That's how you win wars. The best strategy is to intercept all the sigint - NO MATTTER WHERE IT EMANATES FROM AND NO MATTER WHERE IT GOES.

The Leftie doves - and the Old Media and Democrat Party they control - would rather we purchased temporary truce at the price of eternal chains and everlasting shame. For that is all you ever really get when you give into blackmail and terror. The Left's denial of this fact is no different than their denial of the fact that socialism was not only a abject failure at providing the goods, but the single biggest cause of genocide in all of human history. We should no more listen to the Left now, then jump off a bridge. The Bolsheviks were wrong in 1917 and they are wrong now.

2/1/06 - UPDATE: THE TROOPS AGREE WITH ME! UPI/PAMELA HESS:

The American media stood up and took notice when an improvised explosive device grievously injured an ABC News crew Sunday. In Iraq, and throughout the military, there is sympathy and concern for anchor Bob Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt, but there is also this question:

"Why do you think this is such a huge story?" wrote an officer stationed in Baqubah, Iraq, Monday via e-mail. "It's a bit stunning to us over here how absolutely dominant the story is on every network and front page. I mean, you'd think we lost the entire 1st Marine Division or something. "There's a lot of grumbling from guys at all ranks about it. That's a really impolite and impolitic thing to say ... but it's what you would hear over here." ... "The point that is currently being made (is that) that press folks are more important than mere military folks," a senior military officer told UPI Tuesday.

The troops are EXACTLY RIGHT: the Old Media care more about themselves than our troops our our cause. That's one big reason the Old Media is scum. And their ratings reflect the fact that patriotic Americans realize this!

10 A Geraldo moment! Keep that camera on me unless I point to something - n' then keep me centershot in focus!

I'm old enough to remember when reporters stayed off camera while adding narration/commentary - and emerged only at the opening and closing. Those days are gone!

When your the star - your THE STAR.

JJ! A rockhound? Same here - among other related fields. Noticed that too about college "journalism". It has become the new "Phs ED Degree" for faux-intellectuals. Noted the total lack of secondary substance fields - shows in their work when they cover areas they have absolutely no knowledge and understanding of.

11 Yep, hondo, I plead guilty to the "rockhound" nick. There was a time when I chased quartz crystals, novaculite, pyrite and many another mineral up and down the Ouachita Mountains. What a blast!

Then I discovered fossils. So I traveled from one dig to another seeking everything from sharks's teeth to dinosaurs. But couldn't make a living at it.