Whoever cropped this picture should receive a Pulitzer for photo editing. It is truly an exceptional example of journalistic fraud.
As I've said many times, 90% of the power of the press is in what they do NOT report. In all this posturing and speechifying by a distraught (wacko) mother, where is her son's voice? Didn't he talk to his mother about his feelings? And if he did, would she tell us the truth about what he said? Probably not. But surely Casey Sheehan had friends. Surely he told them why he enlisted, why he reenlisted, what he thought about being in Iraq, what he thought about his Commander-in-Chief. The art of conversation still exists in the military. When I was in, we used to sit around for hours during down times just talking. One of our favorite games was to backtrack our conversation after two to three hours to see how one topic had led into another. Why aren't journalists searching every corner of the world to find these people? Why aren't they interviewing Casey's friends, other family members, military colleagues, superiors and subordinates? Has Casey's father ever been given lengthy interviews as his mother has? Does anyone even know what Casey's father looks like? Where is Casey's voice? Would he approve of what his mother is doing? Or would he feel ashamed and dishonored? This is yet another example of journalistic fraud, bias and laziness. Casey is dead, and so far as liberal journalists are concerned, he should stay that way.
I've worked in journalism for decades, but I don't have a single friend in this profession. I'd rather hang out with butchers, bakers and candlestick makers.
Whoever cropped this picture should receive a Pulitzer for photo editing. It is truly an exceptional example of journalistic fraud.
As I've said many times, 90% of the power of the press is in what they do NOT report. In all this posturing and speechifying by a distraught (wacko) mother, where is her son's voice? Didn't he talk to his mother about his feelings? And if he did, would she tell us the truth about what he said? Probably not. But surely Casey Sheehan had friends. Surely he told them why he enlisted, why he reenlisted, what he thought about being in Iraq, what he thought about his Commander-in-Chief. The art of conversation still exists in the military. When I was in, we used to sit around for hours during down times just talking. One of our favorite games was to backtrack our conversation after two to three hours to see how one topic had led into another. Why aren't journalists searching every corner of the world to find these people? Why aren't they interviewing Casey's friends, other family members, military colleagues, superiors and subordinates? Has Casey's father ever been given lengthy interviews as his mother has? Does anyone even know what Casey's father looks like? Where is Casey's voice? Would he approve of what his mother is doing? Or would he feel ashamed and dishonored? This is yet another example of journalistic fraud, bias and laziness. Casey is dead, and so far as liberal journalists are concerned, he should stay that way.
I've worked in journalism for decades, but I don't have a single friend in this profession. I'd rather hang out with butchers, bakers and candlestick makers.
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