Quote Originally Posted by J Wolfsberger View Post
I have to disagree with you, Ken. The media is very competent. The real question is: competent at what...

1. Advocacy journalism....

2. The media is involved in COIN - for the other side...

3. Using soldiers as pawns to advance their narrative. Haditha. Enough said?

I appreciate that the media should have a role. But I come from a period in time when the ideal of that role was to present all the facts and let people decide. The media of today sees itself as an active participant in affairs, one with special privileges, having no accountability to anyone, and acts accordingly.
Not only do I bow but I will also present corroborative evidence of your brilliance:

LINK.

With an attitude like that, who needs enemies. An award for advocacy journalism, COIN involvement and the tossing of a Pawn or two on the fire...

That causes me to restate something I said earlier: "...it is IMO to the advantage of the military for them to change as insistence on media change is unlikely to be heeded."

Sad. Really.