“Although it seems unthinkable now, future wars may require censorship, news blackouts and, ultimately, military attacks on the partisan media”, writes Ralph Peters in The Journal of International Security Affairs.
Since Peters himself is very much a representative of “the partisan media”, I can’t help but wonder how the good colonel himself would fare in such [...]
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Ralph Peters: Future Wars ‘May Require’ Killing Journalists
Posted in Media on May 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Newsweek’s Overhaul: Foreignpolicy.com as Model
Posted in Media on February 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’ll tell you a secret: I’ve stopped subscribing to both Newsweek and Time — and I wasn’t even paying for it from my own pocket.
The reason? I simply no longer found any use for them. The last story I remember eagerly reading was Newsweek’s post-election special, which was fantastic. The other stuff, not so much. [...]
Gaza: Embedding with the Enemy?
Posted in Media on January 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Remember the ruckus at SWJ about Nir Rosen’s visit with the Taleban? The one where opponents of “embedding with the enemy” reminisced misty-eyed about the Greatest War when the press served as a propaganda tool? Now Israeli politicians are using the same argument to justify keeping the media out of Gaza:
‘We must not allow international [...]
McCarthyism on the Left: Greenwald Lists ‘Brennan Defenders’
Posted in Human rights, Media, Terrorism on December 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Salon blogger Glenn Greenwald, who has been a leading voice in the echo chamber of Google-based criticism of John Brennan’s CIA candidacy, today goes a step further in his self-righteous offensive and — I can’t believe I’m writing this — in true McCarthyist fashion provides a list of reporters he thinks have erred in “defending” [...]
Karl Rove in H’wood: NYT, Think Progress Peddle Old News
Posted in Media on December 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The New York Times today reports that, despite the Bush administration’s best efforts, Hollywood never honoured its post-9/11 pledge to make the world love America, and instead just made loads of money for itself.
Think Progress, always on the prowl for a good headline, quotes NYT and huffs: “AFTER 9/11, ROVE PRESSURED THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY ‘TO [...]
Lament for the Magazine
Posted in Media on November 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Browsing my RSS reader one night last week I came across a shocking post by Marc Ambinder of the Atlantic Monthly:
My editors at the Atlantic have never put pressure on me to hawk any product or call attention to anything in the print magazine or even to shill for subscriptions.
That’s one of the reasons I [...]
Blogs Publish Sadr’s “Transformation” as News
Posted in Iraq, Media, Shia on August 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Almost two months after Muqtada al-Sadr announced the disarming of most of JAM and turning the rest into a “social organisation”, a surprising turn of events duly reported at the time by most news organisations (see here and here) and by this blog, this bit of old news is suddenly, well, news again. Reported by [...]
Iraq: The Journalist As a Nuisance
Posted in Iraq, Media on July 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Journalists are up in arms after photographer Zoriah Miller published photos of dead Marines on his web site and was consequently kicked out of his embed. Predictably, the U.S. military is being accused of censorship; the Marines, for their part, say Miller’s photos desecrated the memory of their fallen comrades, added to the grief of [...]
Iraqi Elections: Waiting for Godot
Posted in Iraq, Iraq: Elections, Media on July 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
News about the postponepent of the Iraqi provincial elections has been picked up by the wires, a mere five days after Marc Lynch blogged about it. Lynch himself has another good post detailing the confusion about when exactly the elections might be held.
The reason I keep harping on the mainstream media’s performance is that I [...]
Taleban Surrenders, Citing Michael Yon’s Imminent Arrival
Posted in Afghanistan, Iraq, Media on July 19, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Despite being the Stupidest Man on Earth, I’m sometimes right, and it hurts every time.
Last week I predicted that as the demand for news from Iraq drops, the hacks now covering that war will emigrate to Afghanistan. Now it turns out that, after pronouncing the Iraq war “won”, the inimitable Michael “We’re Winning” Yon is [...]
