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Originally Posted by pan6467
That's a loaded question.
It is their duty to support the troops to a degree that you want to keep battle line morale up. -
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Actually, that's wrong. It's not their duty. Journalistic operations do not have a duty to support ANYTHING except the truth (and many of them kinda forget to support that too).
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That said, it is also the media's responsibility to be as honest and to report what they are seeing to us so that we know the "truth". But the truth has become obscured because the press on both sides have their agendas.
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True. And that's where the question was really loaded. Because that editorial cartoon DOES support the troops. The neocons might tell you that pointing out the fact that our troops are being abused by the military high command and the whitehouse is failing to support them, but in fact pointing out the wrongs dished out to the troops IS supporting the troops.
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The problem is you have this heavy partisan split and for the past few years the media being just whacked in every turn. So you have people believing what they want to hear and read and not really delving into the truth.
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Bingo. And that's exacerbated by the fact that the media cannot report the truth if it's negative without someone accusing the media of being biased.