Tuesday, July 25, 2006
"O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!"
She comes to me bearing the smile that burdens her, promising nothing. We’re waiting for the end, she promises nothing. Nothing but pain. Nothing but suffering. “I support you” but nothing. I understand you can not make your friends angry, so my people are left to die.
"Et tu, Brute?"
I was told that this never happened
A journalist’s job is to research & question, report & question. It is a journalist’s duty to remain unbiased and focused on the who, what, when, where, how and why. I have studied journalism and worked as a reporter for several years. After battling editors and publishers in attempting to report those facts and losing, I concluded that journalism is dead. It has never been more apparent than now. The war on Lebanon continues with now end in sight. The media chooses to regurgitate Israeli military statements in spite of overwhelming facts proving the contrary. The media has betrayed the people more so than the policy makers. The Israeli military will lie and cover up. They will massacre and claim self-defense. That is what an occupying army does. But it is not the duty of the media to assist in their lies. Israel must be very happy to have the media do their work just as they have been conditioned to do. It boggles the mind how the media can question, hound and criticize the US administration infinitely more than the Israeli government. In their eyes, Israel can do no wrong. Accusations against the IDF and their witnessed use of illegal weapons were dismissed by the US media without research. A journalist who does not research a story is not only a puppet, but a coward and a traitor to his reader.
A journalist’s job is to research & question, report & question. It is a journalist’s duty to remain unbiased and focused on the who, what, when, where, how and why. I have studied journalism and worked as a reporter for several years. After battling editors and publishers in attempting to report those facts and losing, I concluded that journalism is dead. It has never been more apparent than now. The war on Lebanon continues with now end in sight. The media chooses to regurgitate Israeli military statements in spite of overwhelming facts proving the contrary. The media has betrayed the people more so than the policy makers. The Israeli military will lie and cover up. They will massacre and claim self-defense. That is what an occupying army does. But it is not the duty of the media to assist in their lies. Israel must be very happy to have the media do their work just as they have been conditioned to do. It boggles the mind how the media can question, hound and criticize the US administration infinitely more than the Israeli government. In their eyes, Israel can do no wrong. Accusations against the IDF and their witnessed use of illegal weapons were dismissed by the US media without research. A journalist who does not research a story is not only a puppet, but a coward and a traitor to his reader.
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