Comments on: Self-Censorship Trumps Official Censorship http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/02/17/self-censorship-trumps-official-censorship/ The national media watch group Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:31:47 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: February 2009 « Questionable Content http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/02/17/self-censorship-trumps-official-censorship/comment-page-1/#comment-42429 February 2009 « Questionable Content Tue, 21 Sep 2010 02:49:25 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=5800#comment-42429 [...] http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/02/17/self-censorship-trumps-official-censorship/ . [...] [...] http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/02/17/self-censorship-trumps-official-censorship/ . [...]

]]> By: FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Papers Still Deem Reality of War as "In Poor Taste" http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/02/17/self-censorship-trumps-official-censorship/comment-page-1/#comment-9019 FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Papers Still Deem Reality of War as "In Poor Taste" Sat, 05 Sep 2009 03:59:48 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=5800#comment-9019 [...] While the Intelligencer also felt the need to declare themselves "entirely in support of the war against terrorists in Afghanistan and Iraq," Strupp's list of those entirely "withholding the shot of [Lance Cpl. Joshua] Bernard being fatally wounded" is long--including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Houston Chronicle, the Salt Lake Tribune, the Boston Herald, Stars and Stripes and the Portland (Maine) Press Herald, which further ingratiated itself with Robert Gates' propaganda machine by condemning such evidence of the reality of war as "in poor taste." [...] [...] While the Intelligencer also felt the need to declare themselves "entirely in support of the war against terrorists in Afghanistan and Iraq," Strupp's list of those entirely "withholding the shot of [Lance Cpl. Joshua] Bernard being fatally wounded" is long--including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Houston Chronicle, the Salt Lake Tribune, the Boston Herald, Stars and Stripes and the Portland (Maine) Press Herald, which further ingratiated itself with Robert Gates' propaganda machine by condemning such evidence of the reality of war as "in poor taste." [...]

]]> By: Doug Latimer http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/02/17/self-censorship-trumps-official-censorship/comment-page-1/#comment-2844 Doug Latimer Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:24:19 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=5800#comment-2844 I criticize you folks ... and rightly so, I think ... not infrequently. But Solomon's got this nailed. The gummint will do everything it can to create the heroic aura he speaks of ... and the goddamn corpress will facilitate that myth in every way possible. The reality of our wars will be buried along with the remains of the dead. I criticize you folks … and rightly so, I think … not infrequently.

But Solomon's got this nailed. The gummint will do everything it can to create the heroic aura he speaks of … and the goddamn corpress will facilitate that myth in every way possible.

The reality of our wars will be buried along with the remains of the dead.

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