07-16-2003, 01:00 PM
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Huggles, sir?
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LINK
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Dana Dillon is a senior defense analyst at the Heritage Foundation. The former infantry officer says the 3rd Infantry Division advanced to the edges of Baghdad in only two and a half days -- literally the fastest movement of mechanized forces in history.
But Dillon notes the media seems to ignore that fact and focus on the number of casualties. He believes the media is fixated on creating another Vietnam.
"It is, like [in] Vietnam, influencing public opinion in the United States," Dillon says. "Here we had the greatest military advance in armored military history ... and now people are talking about being 'bogged down' and having 'heavy casualties.'"
While not diminishing the sacrifice of those have died so far in the conflict, Dillon calls the number of U.S. casualties "militarily insignificant" -- and still, that is all the liberal media is focusing on.
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..and a tiny quote from Accuracy in Media's faq:
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Why is it necessary for the media to have a watchdog?
Quite frankly, the news media don't always get their stories right. What's worse, many of them don't even seem to care. By advising them of their responsibility to the public, whom they claim to serve, AIM helps to nudge the members of the news media into greater accountability for their actions.
How do you know the media are biased?
All the major media surveys for the past 20 years have shown that 80 to 90 percent of the mainstream media consistently vote for Democrats.
But how do you know the media's political opinions influence their reporting?
Many of them are actually admitting it these days. They admit they're anti-business, pro-big government, anti-family and anti-religion. A couple of years ago, CBS commentator Bernard Goldberg caused quite a stir by saying in a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece that he couldn't believe people were actually still arguing about whether or not the media were liberal, because it was so obviously true.
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From the above information one can draw a conclusion that "the media", which is admittedly anti-freedom in many respects and most definitely anti-war, a dramatic failure in the war on Iraq would have been a godsend, and in a sick sense, appreciated.
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