scott_harpell

jah guy!

exactly.

yeah... sure... but if they get shot, who cares? journalism is a flawed genre. people who have little historical background or military training are supposed to understand and write about what is going on? c'mon. people study minute pieces of history for their entire lives and you are gonna tell me some goofball can understand the whole scenario, sum it up in 800 words and not lose anything in translation? there is no way they can understand what is going on without the background or the technical expertise. also, you think that has only happened once, and in antiquity? try jason blair. same paper, same deal, except blair's news didn't cover up the killing of 5-10 million ukranians. history is littered with blatent examples and every paper you pick up is laden with more subtle ones. i dont trust them and i am not gonna blame my soldiers when they get shot in the ass runnign after glory.

Well, "making policy" is YOUR opinion on why reporters are there. Not necessarily true of all reporters, or even most of them. Most would probably laugh at that statement - you ever see how most of them live and their salaries? I wouldn't disagree if you you included in your statement instead "media owners want to make policy and that is why they are there", but that is a different argument, and no media baron has died, or will die, in Iraq. Just like how none of the senior US forces commanders (like the President, and the civvies in the Dod), who also make policy, will ever die in Iraq. The only ones dying in Iraq are powerless (when it comes to policy-making, I mean) servicemen and reporters (and I am not talking about network anchors...they don't die either...I am talking about the AP stringer, or the photog with AP-France). Good discussion with no personal attacks!! What will cc.com think of next? [Enter at stage left the enraged sprayer] you dont ahve a fucking clue about journalism. sure the media owners have a slant, but so too do the journalists. likely they are in opposing positions. nwes is all fucking bunk anyways. if you wanna really look athte media... google the ukranian massacre and a certain new york times 'journalists'... never heard of it? what if you knew that more ukranians were starved to death than jews were killed by hitler. and do you hear about that? journalism is garbage pure and simple.

bullshit. $, politics and prestige.

the reason is clear if you study the game. partisan politics. watch who 'goes down' when you push a particular answer. pathetic paint by numbers politics in this country. obsolete at best.

i think i am voting for sharpton.

dont confuse the policies of the government with the political perspectives of the servicemen. 'their's is not to question why. theirs is but to do and die.' service men do not make the policy and that is th precise reason your idealist journalists are there. either that or make money. if they feel it is a worthy cause or if they feel that the money is right. it is their asses.

you think they have a choice after they signed up? the journalists can tell their bosses to fuck off... wouldn't be pretty if one of the enlisted men did that.

according to this, the only difference between lieberman and bush is that bush 'served in the military'

kerry is the only one i can keep after more than any two clicks... that is scary.

fucking hippies.

it says get real after two clicks! WTF!?! i am getting outta this country.

comp lab. go hawks!

"the sheer physics are mind boggling!"

i grew up on buns of steel myself.

i can do it 100 times a day.

richard simmons style work out eh?

what a bunch of horseshit. they are taking responsabilities, they keep going there despite the risks. it does not mean they have to say thank you when they get shot at and killed. mistakes are not ok and should not be shoved under the rug because 'shit happens'. the evolution of the situation there depends on it. i, for one, am grateful for reporters working there. if it wasn't for them we'd hear that everything is ok, which is obviously very far from the truth. its war! what do you want? you are dillousonal. first as to the nature of war and second to the nature of journalism. they are only there to make a buck. fuck your liberal ass idealogy. $ dude $. that is why. they were greedy and they paid the price. some did not. that is the risk. as sisu would say. fuck with the bull your gonna get the horns. or dont play with fire unless you are ready to get burnt. it sucks they died. but they knew the potential consequences of their actions.

what are you listening to? rammstein and similar style russian artists are doin it for me in the weight room. what is your poison?

They are there to make money off the deaths of our servicemen; so yes. I am for real. They are not being forced to go there. No-one is making them. They took the risks. I feel bad, but people start to be accountable for their decisions and their actions.

who cares about these stupid journalists? they get in the way they get shot. you think hemmingway woulda bitched like that if he took schrapnel? hell no! he'da pulled out his flask and got down to business!

i wanna open a restaurant that sells human meat. its only fair eh? I will only use free-range so it is more ethical. Hey Scotty old boy, its LONG PIG. no doubt. ever seen gangs of new york? N E who. i have just been getting grossed out by the meat industry lately and i will not eat meat that i did not catch or shoot. it is just disguisting. especially pork or chicken. Ever take a parasitology class. It'll do wonders for a diet for a few days. Hahahahaha Actually of all the meats I have studied, horse is the least parasite infected. Eat horse cougar, coyote and wolf can't be wrong. what's worse is the chickens that are all pinned up. i am sure disease is rampant in them lil' fuckers. i used to be in environ. studies and i have seen that shit and it didn't do 1/2 as much as seeing all the chickens with their beaks cut-off and all nasty looking. i will stick to the salmon that i have stocked up.

what the fuck is this all about? ?

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