Turbine Too Hot...
Al-Jaserra (sic) shows all of the beheadings in full length...repeatedly.....and refuses to show Saddam in his undies.
Just how do we counter that kind of propaganda and media coverage of events?
If the average Muslim finds that to be acceptable coverage and conduct by those fighting the Coalition Forces....just how are we to sway their opinion?
If those who call themselves Muslim/Islamic/Followers of Mohammed, or whatever.....accept the preaching of hate, killing, and bombing of those that are not members of their religious persuasion....just how are we to deal with that part of the world's population?
I dare say....throwing an arm over your chest and babbling Allah Akhbar....just is not going to work.
The old saying about "Hearts and Minds" was oft times modified by those actually fighting the bad guys to a more realistic version....that is ...."If you have them by the ghoolies....their hearts and minds will follow!"
Maybe that is where we are going wrong...we are stuck in the middle of the two approaches....the soft and cuddly....and the grab'em by the tender bits.....and that is why the situation is so slow to improve.
For those who do not like the FOX News....I would suggest you critically review CNN, NBC, CBS, and ABC. CBS has a proven track record of false reporting, to wit Dan Blater and Mary Mapes. ABC has a Canadian reading the news....we know they are anything but moderates up north. NBC is lost in the wilderness trying anything to boost ratings. We do not call CNN the Clinton News Network out of pure jest.
Our mass media are losing ratings....FOX is gaining. I wonder why that is if they are so off the mark? The New York Times and all the other major newspapers are losing circulation....must be fish sales are falling too.
Internet Bloggers , Talk Radio, and Fox News are taking over in this country.....is it to do with their false reporting...or the fact they are more balanced (operative word...."more") than the other mass media outlets that have a plain and proven liberal anti-american bias?
The mass media management do not consider Bloggers to be journalists....wonder why that is? Since when do you have to have a university degree in Journalism to be a news reporter? If your product is superior....will not it succeed against the inferior product? Bloggers are taking over. Look at the success of the Drudge Report. Talk radio has taken the country by storm....not just conservative commentators but also liberal shows as well. At least the American people are not being spoon fed by a few media outlets that are for all intents and purposes, mere clones of one another as to content and slant.
Our constitution safeguards the Press....but it also states that the Press is supposed to be the purveyor of "truth".....the real...actual....honest by God Truth....not the truth as they wish it to be. We are having a crisis within this country in that regard. Again....Dan Blater is case in point....and Newsweek Magazine followed by the LA Times and NY Times.
Rome fell from within....as have most "civilizations"....the Western World best awake to what is going on around us.