September 20, 2006
Call it ethics if you want. I call it treason.
Don't you just love it when the ethical thing to do gets people killed?
Ethics.
Michelle Malkin's latest column on the Bilal Hussein mess:
Let me repeat that: An Associated (with terrorists) Press journalist gets caught with an alleged al Qaeda leader and tests positive for bomb-making materials. That. Is. News. How does a news organization explain away its decision to sit on it for five months? Like this: "The AP has worked quietly until now, believing that would be the best approach."The link above, so graciously provided by Michelle Malkin in her column, will take you to our Bilal Hussein archives which has everything you wanted to know about the enemy working for the AP, including his inciteful analysis of how the good guy's in Fallujah we're Abu Musab al Zarqawi's al Qaeda freedom fighters and how great it was to live under the Fallujah Shura Council's rule---a rule that included murdering people for looking too Western.The best approach to journalism? No. The best approach to suppressing a damning connection to terrorists.
The mainstream media enjoys mocking bloggers as journalistic wannabes who don't do any "real" reporting and have no concern for the "public interest." But as in the case of the Reuters photo-faking debacle this summer, it is bloggers in their little home offices -- not the professionals on the ground thousands of miles away -- who smoked out a war story with profound national security implications. Well before I reported on Hussein's capture, military bloggers and media watchdog bloggers had raised persistent questions over the past two years about Hussein's relationship with terrorists in Iraq and whether his photos were staged in collusion with our enemies. (For a thorough overview, see http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/cat_bilal_hussein.php.)
Ethics.
Michelle also has inciteful analysis on her blog today.
Oh, and way to go NY Times. Ethics above love of country and the safety of our soldiers, as I always say.
Also, don't miss out on another find about Bilal Hussein from Dan Riehl. Ethics.
More on ethicsgate from the guys at Powerline:
Nowhere in the AP's response is there any recognition of, let alone response to, the fundamental criticism that we and others have leveled: news organizations like the AP should not pay photographers to consort with terrorists and take photos that the terrorists evidently believe will advance their interests. The AP apparently considers this practice to embody an appropriate neutrality between the terrorists on one side, and their victims and American soldiers on the other. And they don't seem to understand why that view is controversial.Ethics ethics ethics!
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You really do have to ask yourself do these organizations have a death wish or what. Don't they know the first to go over the transom is the news people. Hate does strange things to the brain, what little there is of it.
Posted by: bill at September 20, 2006 05:17 PM (7evkT)
I couldn't agree more. See this piece I put up re Michelle's piece and don't miss Austin Bay driving this point home
RBT
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The Truth, The Whole Truth, and nothing but The Truth?
The MSM is failing in its journalistic responsibility/obligation under the
1st Amendment to objectively report and educate the American people of the
important news of the day. The MSM is selectively filtering and ommiting
key facts readily available on the Internet and the Blogos re the GWOT.
This is tantamount to lying to the American people.
Some have argued this stems from MSM's BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome - HT Dr. Sanity).
There are none so blind as those who will not see.
The support and will of the American people is crucial in winning the GWOT.
Without objective facts, the American people are left in the dark regarding
the real dangers the free world is facing by this enemy and its ideology of
hate and Evil - Islamofascism. In recent days one only need take notice of
the extreme intolerance of radical Islam worldwide over the Pope's remarks.
We are witnessing 1938 all over again.
Please see this five-part series by Scott Malesek on the real connections
between the Saddam Regime and radical Islam. Saddam was a Sunday go to
mosque Muslim. Saddam collaborated and supported AQ, Sunni and Shiia
Islamofascists, and others whenever it was in his own best interests to
remain in power.
[...]
Austin Bay drills it with this post:
The CBS Ambush– this week’s Creators Syndicate column
The “Arab street†put a calculated “image of anger†on your tv screen.
That was 1990.
The definition:
Twenty-first century Islamo-fascist terrorists, however, have refined the model and moved beyond an image of anger to a new form of prepared global ambush that integrates murder, terror and instant media.
The ambush technique coordinates blood-spilling violence with sensational imagery and rhetoric using a dispersed network of media operatives, guerrillas and terrorists. Networked, Coordinated Blood-spilling plus Sensationalism — hence the technique’s acronym: the CBS ambush.
[...]
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Posted by: rocketsbrain at September 20, 2006 05:21 PM (3N2e4)
Posted by: jd watson at September 20, 2006 06:09 PM (KESEk)
Now, line that lover of moon god worshippers up, and shoot his ass.
Posted by: Leatherneck at September 20, 2006 06:25 PM (D2g/j)
Now, line that lover of moon god worshippers up, and shoot his ass.
Posted by: Leatherneck at September 20, 2006 06:26 PM (D2g/j)
Posted by: SeeMonk at September 20, 2006 06:55 PM (n4VvM)
Jesus, man, she is a married woman!
Don't you know her husband and former ghostwriter is Allahpundit?
Posted by: Darth Vag at September 20, 2006 08:09 PM (HSkSw)
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Posted by: Rod Stanton at September 20, 2006 10:02 PM (VvgsT)
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at September 21, 2006 08:41 AM (v3I+x)
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