There's a website now allowing angry journalists to vent . . . but since mention appeared at Drudge, more people angry AT journalists appear to be venting.
Here's a real eye-opener, if true . . .
# 3203
Stick this in your newspaper and smoke it:
- Im angry because I was in Mosul back in 2004, when someone set off an IED (carbomb) resulting in the deaths of two of my fellow soldiers and seriously injuring two others.
- Im angry because there was an Iraqi man there, filming the explosion from start to finish, and the resulting carnage with a handheld camera.
- Im angry because an over-watch/sniper team detained the man with the camera, and when they searched him they found credentials identifying him as a stringer journalist for a major American news corporation in New York City.
- Im angry because a subsequent investigation conducted by American AND Iraqi investigators determined the man was a member of the terrorist cell responsible for planting the IED and was in charge of filming it for posting to their propaganda website.
- Im angry because when we explained these FACTS to the president of the major news corporation in New York, he blustered and said things like All of our associates are thoroughly vetted and We do not employ terrorists as news reporters , and basically ignored us.
- Im angry because when the terrorist/journalist went to trial in the Iraqi court system, the president of the major news corporation sent a VERY expensive lawyer and a VERY popular news reporter to visit the Iraqi judge in charge of the preliminary hearings.
- Im angry because the lawyer paid the judge to drop the case against the terrorist/journalist and release him from detention.
- Im angry because the reporter conducted a very well produced interview and profile of the judge, exalting his dedication to the people of Iraq and praising him for being so brave to serve his country in a time of such turmoil.
- Im angry because no journalist would ever dream of telling the truth about this story.
- Im angry because journalists know absolutely nothing about war or what it means to sacrifice ANYTHING for the greater good of our amazing country, yet they continually pontificate on its ravages, destruction, and injustices ad nauseam.
I am very happy that I chose a career in the U.S. military instead of becoming a journalist.
