Monday, March 21, 2005
“The Silence Is Deafening”
If you are a downtrodden left-of-center journalist, and the anniversary of the second Iraq War is coming up, and you’ve just got to make a splash, what do you do?
You claim that Americans don’t care about the troops and the war, of course. At least, that is the route the Times Herald-Record took yesterday. Confederate Yankee reports:
The headline on the Times Herald-Record Sunday was “Two Years in Iraq and… THE SILENCE IS DEAFENING.” It is accompanied by a photo of a worn plastic yellow ribbon tied around the base of a telephone pole, presumably to show flagging support at home for our troops, which the paper promotes on page 9 with a heavily-biased tabloid-quality story showing how the lack of yellow ribbons in the area shows flagging support for the war and our troops. The problem is, the ribbon they show is a lie.(…via Everyman)I know, I placed it there. Or perhaps not that ribbon in particular, but hundreds like it. These ribbons are on telephone poles across the region and perhaps around the country, used by electric company subcontractors to mark poles for a multitude of reasons. They are not there for the reasons the newspaper implies.
Posted on March 21, 2005 03:49 PM. Permalink 