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themp
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Username: Themp
Post Number: 2966
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 31, 2006 - 10:23 am: | 
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http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id= 1002577367 |
notehead
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Username: Notehead
Post Number: 3356
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 31, 2006 - 10:27 am: |
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...It also coined a new word: Zinsmeistered.
That's a great way to achieve immortality. His parents must be so proud. |
Dave
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Username: Dave
Post Number: 9650
Registered: 4-1997
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 31, 2006 - 10:30 am: |
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This stood out for me:
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With the deaths of two CBS media workers on Monday, more journalists have died in covering the Iraq war, 71, than in all of World War II.
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themp
Supporter
Username: Themp
Post Number: 2968
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 31, 2006 - 10:46 am: |
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In that 2003 article, Zinsmeister wrote that reporters considered soldiers "from another species. Typical reporters know little about a fighting life. They show scant respect for the fighter’s virtues. Precious few could ever be referred to as fighting men themselves. The journalists embedded among U.S. forces that I’ve crossed paths with are fish out of water here, and show their discomfort clearly as they hide together in the press tents, fantasizing about expensive restaurants at home and plush hotels in Kuwait City, fondling keyboards and satellite phones with pale fingers, clinging to their world of offices and tattle and chatter where they feel less ineffective, less testosterone deficient, more influential.
This struck me, not just as bad, adolescent writing, but the work of a truly shallow jerk. You see this alot in conservative writing. I was reading some pro-war blog and the guy throws in "I can bench 300" in the middle of a paragraph. I mean "testosterone deficient"? Don't we have women in the military giving their lives? This is Nazi-like health cult writing. |
cjc
Citizen
Username: Cjc
Post Number: 5659
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 31, 2006 - 11:19 am: |
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Bench 300? Madeline Albright's thighs could crush him. |
themp
Supporter
Username: Themp
Post Number: 2969
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 31, 2006 - 11:35 am: |
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Yes, right you are.
(...?) |
notehead
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Username: Notehead
Post Number: 3359
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 31, 2006 - 2:00 pm: |
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The guy seems to feel very threatened by the presence of journalists trying to provide facts from the field. |
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