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Afghanistan Coming Unglued

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Boom_70, Feb 26, 2012.

  1. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    No one has the Constitutional right to destroy another person's property. He can burn his own bibles to his heart's content, but not yours.
     
  2. Stitch

    Stitch Active Member

    Those tweeters bring in a few hundred extra page views that earn the paper a buck or two.
     
  3. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    What's kind of ironic, is that they are worried about a few burned up korans, while their relatives rot away in Gitmo with little chance of due process.
     
  4. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    But they can't stop a war machine like those old guys could.
     
  5. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    And the Halberstams and Herschs would be quite capable of tweeting in their sleep and then cranking out their ass-kicking copy during the day.
     
  6. old_tony

    old_tony Well-Known Member

    This. 1,000 times this.
     
  7. joe king

    joe king Active Member

    They're busy investigating the misuse of apostrophes.
     
  8. hondo

    hondo Well-Known Member

    Ah, what the hell, I still won't kill him. Now if he fucks with my R11 driver ...
     
  9. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    One writer who has done a good job of not falling in lock step with the Pentagon version of what is going in in Afghanistan is Michael Hastings. He is the Rolling Stone writer that took down McChrystal.

    I just finished his book - The Operators where he further elaborates on his McChrystal story and why he chose to write the story as he viewed it. Surprisingly he has gotten a lot of grief from mainstream Washington media. It's one of the better books I've read in a while.

    There is a good review by Glenn Greenwald in Salon:
    http://www.salon.com/2012/01/06/michael_hastings_on_war_journalists/singleton/

    Interesting quote from Hastings:

    "Look, I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising. My views are critical but that shouldn’t be mistaken for hostile – I’m just not a stenographer. There is a body of work that shows how I view these issues but that was hard-earned through experience, not something I learned going to a cocktail party on fucking K Street. That’s what reporters are supposed to do, report the story."
     
  10. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    "the unwritten rule I'd broken was a simple one:You weren't really suppose to write honestly about people in power. Especially those who the media deemed untouchable. Trash Sarah Palin all you want, but tread carefully when writing about the sacred cows."
    Micheal Hastings on fallout from Rolling Stone story.
     
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