The main question from that post has turned ot to be, how can we make an informed opinion if we are not being informed of all the facts? Is that even possible?
Doubtful.
My media bias posts can all be found on one page here.
Which brings me to Uncle Jimbo.... he is demanding a body count...thats right!!!!! He wants to know how many enemy combatants are dying each day.
Yeah, I said it. The media are going to lose this surge before we even fight it. The reports today lead with 4 US dead, but absolutely no info as to how many bad guys left for their 72 goats.
So here is the deal. I am requesting information about all actions in Baghdad and Al Anbar, specifically how many enemy dead or captured. If all the public hears is 4 more Marines died, they will have no feel for what their lives bought. That is the currency of war, I hate it but it's reality. Without an enemy body count, we have no way to gauge success. The administration has decided not to release numbers on enemy casualties, but I haven't.
I specifically request that no one send classified or otherwise protected information. But I do enjoy the same protections the jackals of the MSM do. I hope I enjoy the trust that any communications would be completely privileged, but you have my word anyhow.
What I want to do is create an alternate channel of information on the surge, to provide a real look at what the actual circumstances of each engagement are. We can do this by cross-referencing different media sources reporting on actions, checking press releases from involved units, passing on first hand or second, maybe third hand info. Part of intel evaluation and analysis involves rating sources, so if you hear from your cousin whose in Baghdad, that one of the other battalions in his unit got in a scrap, and a guy he knows over there says they whacked 15 tangos, that gets thrown in the overall matrix and is factored in.
Then we need to roll the results up real tight and start poking all the media we can in the eye with it. Jules Crittenden you out there? Plus everyone else we can. I will compile press releases detailing whatever info there is and we shout it out all over. If we don't then every US casualty will be portrayed as another in a lost cause.
Disclaimers: 'Cuz lawyers are evil
This is not a Blackfive initiative, it is an Uncle Jimbo intitiative. Matt is welcome to play, but this is my personal effort. And remember I said that I am not soliciting any classified or protected information, I am not a NY Times reporter FFS. Any questions jimbo@unclejimbo.com
To be fair, Jules tells Uncle Jimbo to stop poking him in the eye, he is trying!!!!! He is and has been a voice of reason that has done his best to report fairly and I personally thank him for that.
Amy Proctor is also telling us about "Media Ignores Big Progress in Iraq for Celeb Death" It is an absolute MUST READ.
Seriously though, this is a good idea.
The media has done its best, at every turn, to lose the war on terror. From reporting only half the news, to reporting leaks of classified information that has endangered our troops to simply, actively rooting for our enemies to win in order to further their political agenda.
This must stop and since the MSM is not going to start developing a heart or a soul, then we must counter it with the other side of the story, the other half that the American people are not getting.
Forums, threads, Real Clear Politics, reddit, and digg to name just a few ways out of hundreds, are ways to get this type of information out there to the public....to bring them the half of the story that the MSM deliberately tries to hide.
We are at war and our soldiers are out there fighting for us...... we need to fight here at home FOR them.
For those of us that cannot go to Iraq or Afghanistan or wherever we end up and help with the war on terror, we must find our way, here at home, to help and this media war is a step in the right directions.
910 Group is also another way to help get actively involved with spreading the word and I would suggest those that care to help in this fight, go take a look around.
More on the media's credibility problem from Herbet Klein with "The New media's Credibility Problem".
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