Even if you've heard about the reporter who fed a misleading question to a soldier at Donald Rumsfeld's press conference, you may still be concerned about the substance of his question. Do our troops have adequate armor, and are they being put in danger by the administration? CavalierX, as usual, has all the facts. Here's a little something to get you started:
Fortunately (for our military; unfortunately for our media), HMMWVs that haven't yet been up-armored are not driven, but carted on flatbed trucks to a safe area. Any concerns the soldiers might have had came not from their own experience -- since they hadn't been in Iraq yet -- but from the media misrepresentation. The fearmongering media created the worries they then reported as "legitimate concerns." Reporters like Pitts (and there are far too many like him) have long ago forgotten anything they knew about journalistic integrity. Instead of reporting facts fairly and accurately, they create the news to further their agenda, engaging in a "gotcha" game designed to attack those with whom they disagree.
There's a lot more, so go over and check it out.
Posted by CD on December 13, 2004 12:14 PM