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Reader comment on item: Op Eds Now More Central in War than Bullets
Submitted by LDC (United States), Oct 19, 2006 at 10:07
The bad news is that the "mainstream" media (the notion of a mainstream media is rapidly evaporating, but it's too soon to call it the "old" media) is, by its historical DNA (since the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War), anti-nationalism and anti-war.
With the rise of the good news (namely, the proliferation of alternative news sources through cable TV and the internet), the mainstream has become more overt in the propagation of its bias. And, less artful and sophisticated in manupulating the news reports by its choice of language.
Meanwhile, the military is ill-equipped to engage in effective P.R. It all promises to get worse before it gets any better.
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| Holocaust survivor (OBM) Rachel Zini's reply to a politician's fake, cruel, horrific attempted 'comparison' [691 words] | Fanny | Dec 24, 2022 23:02 | 290092 | ||
| Arab and some radical leftists mainly of Haaretz - fake comparisons to aggressive "Palestinian" attackers [2240 words] | Nina | Mar 6, 2022 10:45 | 279219 | ||
| Vile unreliable Haaretz: never misses an opportunity to incite anti-Jewish hatred - misleading headline [87 words] | Mitch | Mar 6, 2022 04:28 | 279218 | ||
| Had humane Israel, with its very advanced weapons not be so careful in aiming only at combatants, not taking measures to minimize collateral damage... [137 words] | Milano | Mar 6, 2022 00:04 | 279217 | ||
| Conventional casualities [61 words] | Celene | Feb 18, 2012 23:31 | 193459 | ||
| A War of Public Relations [275 words] | Jaisingh Thakur | Jul 29, 2007 08:47 | 105066 | ||
| reporters should live in Israel during an attack , then " shoot " their mouths off [235 words] | Phil Greend | Jun 6, 2007 18:39 | 96416 | ||
| Really a state of chronic and corrosive anarchy [254 words] | Jason Keuter | Nov 7, 2006 01:18 | 65434 | ||
| A War - or a Dialogue? [1415 words] | Thomas Justin Kaze | Oct 31, 2006 22:58 | 64928 | ||
| What's it going take ! [181 words] | dfwhite | Oct 23, 2006 22:37 | 64284 | ||
 Whats it going to take? Response to dfwhite [656 words] | Faqi Hussain | Oct 25, 2006 21:23 | 64284 | ||
| Reply to dfwhite: It will take something like the solutions Trufelman and I discussed (see earlier comments) [537 words] | James Vesce | Oct 27, 2006 18:30 | 64284 | ||
| mirror [226 words] | dfwhite | Oct 28, 2006 23:02 | 64284 | ||
| Can't we really handle them? [689 words] | Thomas Justin Kaze | Oct 23, 2006 05:26 | 64186 | ||
| DUBIOUS LIARS [64 words] | syed mohammad ali | Oct 24, 2006 02:47 | 64186 | ||
| You've got spunk to tell it like it is - Thomas Justin Kaze [53 words] | Jaladhi | Oct 24, 2006 15:55 | 64186 | ||
| On the contrary Sayed.... [496 words] | Homefront | Oct 25, 2006 00:24 | 64186 | ||
| Mr. Syed Mohammad Ali [163 words] | Thomas Justin Kaze | Oct 30, 2006 00:06 | 64186 | ||
| The renaissance... - Thomas Justin [97 words] | Ammar Ahmed | Oct 31, 2006 22:45 | 64186 | ||
| France's Permanent Intifada by Islamist Muslims [123 words] | Gandhiba | Nov 1, 2006 04:43 | 64186 | ||
| understanding [368 words] | paul | Apr 23, 2011 15:32 | 64186 | ||
| The rules of war must also change [129 words] | Salomon Benzimra | Oct 22, 2006 01:32 | 63506 | ||
| to salomon (geneva convention no longer valid ) [69 words] | syed mohammad ali | Oct 23, 2006 03:28 | 63506 | ||
| Shame on us! [209 words] | Burnice McLaurin | Oct 21, 2006 17:33 | 63458 | ||
| You are right [33 words] | Kurtlane | Oct 28, 2006 03:11 | 63458 | ||
| A new way of War. [316 words] | Gary Cochran | Oct 21, 2006 10:27 | 63425 | ||
| We destroy, we invade to finish the job, and we leave it for NATO [236 words] | Harrak | Oct 22, 2006 00:50 | 63425 | ||
| You're right on Oil [358 words] | Gary Cochran | Oct 23, 2006 00:14 | 63425 | ||
| if not [100 words] | dfwhite | Oct 21, 2006 01:52 | 63363 | ||
| PR of War [132 words] | Lloyd Trufelman | Oct 20, 2006 14:00 | 62767 | ||
| PR of War: Dan and Lloyd are on the right track [835 words] | James Vesce | Oct 25, 2006 17:22 | 62767 | ||
| 3 | Can west defeat islam? answer: No, because [205 words] | Muhammad Yunus | Oct 20, 2006 10:39 | 62744 | |
| Anti-American American and the exaggerations made by Yunus [245 words] | Harrak | Oct 21, 2006 11:27 | 62744 | ||
| Good Grief [422 words] | Bryan Jackson | Oct 21, 2006 22:43 | 62744 | ||
| Can we defeat Islam? Who cares? [86 words] | Kay Michelle | Oct 21, 2006 23:21 | 62744 | ||
| west need not defeat [31 words] | elias | Oct 23, 2006 07:36 | 62744 | ||
| For Muhammad Yunus [82 words] | Peter Herz | Oct 23, 2006 16:24 | 62744 | ||
| Response to Bryan Jackson [3 words] | Gellin and Infidellin | Oct 24, 2006 21:21 | 62744 | ||
| 1 | All Non Muslims in USA must unite for the Greater good of Humanity [116 words] | Suthputra | Nov 2, 2006 15:00 | 62744 | |
| STOP MUSLIM CONQUER OF THE WORLD [275 words] | Leonardo | Jun 5, 2013 22:10 | 62744 | ||
| re PR in our epoch [263 words] | Jascha Kessler | Oct 19, 2006 13:49 | 61536 | ||
 Bad News & Good News [111 words] | LDC | Oct 19, 2006 10:07 | 61509 | ||
| The Philippines and Ireland as addtional examples of early press influence [641 words] | John Broom | Oct 19, 2006 09:58 | 61508 | |
| I think it's more about perceived threat [202 words] | Noto | Oct 18, 2006 22:45 | 61466 | ||
| Wasn't it Napoleon who said - The moral is to the physical as three to one [84 words] | Sully | Oct 18, 2006 19:43 | 61450 | ||
| foolish thoughts [19 words] | syed mohammad ali | Oct 18, 2006 15:08 | 61407 | ||
| foolish thoughts [301 words] | Another American | Oct 18, 2006 18:01 | 61407 | ||
| foolish thoughts [88 words] | Ed | Oct 18, 2006 19:40 | 61407 | ||
| And That is Why.... [29 words] | Blackspeare | Oct 18, 2006 19:58 | 61407 | ||
| Wrong Question [301 words] | Caesar M. Arevalo | Oct 19, 2006 00:47 | 61407 | ||
| Correct [11 words] | Octavio Johanson | Oct 19, 2006 02:56 | 61407 | ||
| I glady deny the rights to a 'way of life' that... [664 words] | CanadianChris | Oct 19, 2006 13:23 | 61407 | ||
| Foolish thoughts Syed Mohammad Ali [812 words] | Jan | Oct 19, 2006 14:03 | 61407 | ||
| 1 | Deutchland Ubber Alles [64 words] | Yuval Brandstetter MD | Oct 19, 2006 17:15 | 61407 | |
| Not just foolish, ridiculous also [95 words] | Vinodgupt | Oct 19, 2006 18:28 | 61407 | ||
| Apologies to Blackspere [79 words] | Faqi Hussain | Oct 19, 2006 21:45 | 61407 | ||
| Foolish thoughts, foolish question [223 words] | Jeff | Oct 19, 2006 23:32 | 61407 | ||
| to jan [153 words] | syed mohammad ali | Oct 21, 2006 08:19 | 61407 | ||
| do you ever read the history of first crusade [130 words] | syed mohammad ali | Oct 21, 2006 12:43 | 61407 | ||
| Of course you can! [96 words] | Kay Michelle | Oct 21, 2006 23:45 | 61407 | ||
| response to seyd mohammad ali [234 words] | Faqi Hussain | Oct 22, 2006 01:01 | 61407 | ||
| Syed [102 words] | Another Infidel | Oct 22, 2006 03:30 | 61407 | ||
| many muslims settled in west for earning and nothing else [90 words] | syed mohammad ali | Oct 22, 2006 21:10 | 61407 | ||
| you shouldnt have the name faqi hussian [156 words] | syed mohammad ali | Oct 22, 2006 21:18 | 61407 | ||
| 1 | To Syed Mohammad Ali, my goodness, are there contradictions in the Quran? [428 words] | Jan | Oct 23, 2006 05:54 | 61407 | |
| Jeff, actually Syed isn't free to follow Islam, you forgot... [47 words] | Kay Michelle | Oct 23, 2006 19:17 | 61407 | ||
| Feeble Reply..Syed!! [176 words] | Another Infidel | Oct 24, 2006 01:24 | 61407 | ||
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| I agree [19 words] | LDC | Oct 19, 2006 10:12 | 61388 | ||
| Hope you are right- Another American [73 words] | Jaladhi | Oct 19, 2006 15:38 | 61388 | ||
| Hope you are right - [235 words] | Another American | Oct 20, 2006 00:09 | 61388 | ||
| Islam means Peace , but hear what Muslim Clerics said in their Friday Sermons in Mosques [329 words] | Beniua | Nov 1, 2006 04:53 | 61388 | ||
| Loyalty [309 words] | Dean | Oct 18, 2006 11:16 | 61386 | ||
| Dr. Pipes, a small correction. [280 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | Moshe | Oct 18, 2006 10:45 | 61381 | ||
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| It's the Hurons vs. the Iroquois all over again [144 words] | Peter Herz | Oct 18, 2006 07:39 | 60861 | ||
| Invading the right country is also important [248 words] | Aaron | Oct 18, 2006 03:19 | 60810 | ||
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| left out [310 words] | dfwhite | Oct 17, 2006 17:13 | 60746 | ||
| Old War, New War, Nuclear War and WMDs [99 words] | Open BSD | Oct 17, 2006 16:56 | 60745 | ||
| Re: Op Eds Now More Central in War than Bullets [229 words] | Mendl Malkin | Oct 17, 2006 16:00 | 60738 | ||
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| Confidence in the West [109 words] | David W. Lincoln | Oct 17, 2006 16:38 | 60736 | ||
| UNFORTUNATELY YOU'RE RIGHT [49 words] | JOHN MANITTA | Oct 17, 2006 14:59 | 60734 | ||
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| The influence of the media [183 words] | muminsalih | Oct 17, 2006 14:45 | 60731 | ||
| Ironic [333 words] | Mark Kaye | Oct 17, 2006 14:19 | 60728 | ||
| Mark, not Ironic, your post is rather Prophetic. [98 words] | Moshe | Oct 18, 2006 06:32 | 60728 | ||
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| Ironic [6 words] | Another American | Oct 18, 2006 22:08 | 60728 | ||
| Jews and the whole world [312 words] | trans-parere | Oct 19, 2006 15:41 | 60728 | ||
| just deserts [210 words] | trans-parere | Oct 19, 2006 16:22 | 60728 | ||
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| And God said what? Infidel [159 words] | trans-parere | Oct 23, 2006 17:27 | 60728 | ||
| SYSTMATIC ERADICATION IS COMPLETE IN TURKEY [82 words] | DONT FORGET THE ARMENIAN /ASSYRIAN GENOCIDE | Oct 26, 2006 04:04 | 60728 | ||
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| Moshe and the one opinion and the one history [371 words] | trans-parere | Oct 28, 2006 23:40 | 60728 | ||
| trans-parere's flawed Jewish history [515 words] | Infidel | Oct 29, 2006 22:24 | 60728 | ||
| Dear Trans-parere [283 words] | Moshe | Oct 31, 2006 09:21 | 60728 | ||
| Moshe [171 words] | Trans-parere | Nov 1, 2006 00:08 | 60728 | ||
| Infidel [170 words] | Trans-parere | Nov 1, 2006 01:00 | 60728 | ||
| Trans-parere [97 words] | Moshe | Nov 2, 2006 05:57 | 60728 | ||
| PR Vs. bullets [48 words] | Dusan Lipensky | Oct 17, 2006 14:09 | 60727 | ||
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| Well said, but is anyone listening? [129 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | Rick House | Oct 17, 2006 13:29 | 60725 | ||
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| But what is community based upon? [122 words] | David W. Lincoln | Oct 17, 2006 13:00 | 60719 | ||
| the op-ed war is the most lop-sided of all [160 words] | Yuval Brandstetter MD | Oct 17, 2006 16:29 | 60719 | ||
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| Dennis, your Dad... [66 words] | LDC | Oct 19, 2006 10:19 | 60716 | ||
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| Chris and Chandragupt [506 words] | Trans-parere | Oct 29, 2006 19:37 | 60716 | ||
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