Thursday, 27 July 2006
Bruce Kesler: Veteran Reporters
Contributed by Bill Faith

Veteran Reporters

Thanks to the Internet, major media reporting on Iraq is challenged by milbloggers, and others, with first-person reporting and with facts that don’t fit in the major media, whether for reasons of space, contradiction to anti-war meme, or MSM incompetence.

For an earlier generation of now middle-aged Vietnam servicepeople, whose voices largely went unheard and whose reputations were tarred by major media echoing of Kerryesque fabrications, the rise of the milbloggers is cheered, and many are now getting their voice heard.

The condescension toward milbloggers oozes from the head of establishment journalism’s Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, for whom the truth is his fellows’ “big picture,” rather than piecing together a better picture from the individual shards of first-hand facts:

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Read the whole thing. It's lengthy, but well worth your time.

Contributed by Bill Faith on July 27, 2006 at 04:25 AM in Bill Faith, Media Perfidy, The American Warrior | Permalink

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