-> On 06 Feb 09  14:39:12, Richard Webb got back to Dan Ceppa 
-> Re: Newsmen vs News Readers

 DC> Front line journalists are now imbedded and become far more like 
 DC> cheerleaders than objective reporters.  


 RW> OF course, a powerful lesson learned by the folks with
 RW> fingers on the buttons in Vietnam.  Independent journalism
 RW> is a thing of the past, like too much else these days.

One of the main things sanitized is the human costs of the war.  
That's why returning military coffins were not shown and why 
"collateral damage" isn't displayed.  The made to war look like 
a video game.  


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