If D-Day happened today

Yep, that about sums up todays media. Thanks for the laugh though.

 

Ditto. I can't remember the last time I watched any TV news broadcast.

 

If d-day happend today,we'll all be involved! I thinke thate wuolde be quite exciting.

 

"There is no morality in warfare. You kill children. You kill women. You kill old men. You don't seek them out, but they die. That's what happens in war." Paul Tibbets

 

I've resolved to read a few books every year on subjects that interest me rather than be "educated" on general issues through journalism.

 

The media as it exists today is politically run and doesn't present an unbiased view on anything. It sells out - it is only concerned with making money. Look at the media during war today vs how it was during WW2, for instance.

The above posted article is hilarious though - i shared it with my coworker and he was cracking up over it!

 

Mussolini-Are you and you;re co-worker laughing at Wolfy post???

Mikebatzel- You forgot about young men dying aswell!
And also,Women and Children have no say in wars,the men create the wars and women and children have to go though it all,so men can prove that there the macho men of the earth.

This is kind of realating to the topic thread- if D-day was today,would any one of you join the fight??? Maybe thats what the thread title meant! I am not sure.

 

Yes, I agree Muss. It seems that the MSM (Main Stream Media) has warped into the SCM (State Controlled Media)!

Perhaps BO and the Press should just get a room! (Chris Matthews has dibs on going first!)

 

Hi Heidi, The quote was not mine but Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the plane that dropped the first atom bomb over Japan (Enola Gay). The point he was trying to make was that, while no one activly seeks to kill women, children, old men, etc. (with the exeption of genocide), they still die during a war. Civilian casualties are inevitable. It is unfortunate, but a fact that must be accepted for the greater good.

 

Two examples that are less than 48 hour old about the crashed airbus...... I thought I was going to throw my tv out of the window!

1) 11 more bodies were found, of whom four men and four women"
(were the other three aliens ? )

2) The tail section was retrieved, as well as the tip of the wing ( oh, was there only one wing, now I understand why it crashed.....)

 

Skipper! Is that what the thread is about,modern D-DAYS???

I to had a same experience like you did,when the pope came to melbourne,i wanted to throw my television out the window too! It was just pope,pope,pope and more pope!

Mikbatzel, I hope i was not to rude with my last post! I fully understand you,i knew that you were right.

Cheers.

 

Musso -- You may enjoy reading Michael Parenti's Inventing Reality. It is a Leftist (very) exploration of how the White House controlled the media during the Reagan administration. Not close to you on the political spectrum but it does have parallels to what we have seen in recent years in the media.

 

It's about the manupilation and the power of the media who can tell what they want about any subject

 

I've seen something similar before...

Ah yes, here it is:

"
Many US planes lost

June 7, 1942

The United States Navy suffered another blow in its attempt to stem the Japanese juggernaut ravaging the Pacific Ocean. Midway Island, perhaps the most vital U.S. outpost, was pummeled by Japanese Naval aviators. The defending U.S. forces, consisting primarily of antique Buffalo fighters, were competely wiped out while the Japanese attackers suffered few, if any, losses. In a nearby naval confrontation, the Japanese successfully attacked the Yorktown which was later sunk by a Japanese submarine. A destroyer lashed to the Yorktown was also sunk.
American forces claim to have sunk four Japanese carriers and the cruiser Mogami but those claims were vehemently denied by the Emporer's spokeman.
The American carriers lost an entire squadron of torpedo planes when they failed to link up with fighter escorts. The dive bombers had fighter escort even though they weren't engaged by enemy fighters. The War Dept. refused to answer when asked why the fighters were assigned to the wrong attack groups. The Hornet lost a large number of planes when they couldn't locate the enemy task force. Despite this cavalcade of errors, Admirals Fletcher and Spruance have not been removed.
Code Broken

The failure at Midway is even more disheartening because the U.S. Navy knew the Japanese were coming. Secret documents provided to the NY Times showed that "Magic" intercepts showed the Japanese planned to attack Midway, which they called "AF".
Obsolete Equipment

Some critics blamed the failure at Midway on the use of obsolete aircraft. The inappropriately named Devastator torpedo planes proved no match for the Japanese fighters. Even the Avengers, its schedule replacements, were riddled with bullets and rendered unflyable. Secretary of War Stimson dodged the question saying simply: "You go to war with the Navy you have, not the Navy you want or would like to have". Critics immediately called for his resignation."

 

Well, what can I say? I'm a journalist and I have to admit that I laughed when I read how D-Day would've been reported today though a part of me do feel a little embarrassment on how low this profession has plunged.
On a serious note: there's no such thing as objective, unbiased reporting. Given the same set of facts on an event, different forms of mass media will highlight, downplay or ignore things to adhere to the platform (read editorial policy) their media uphold. Well, enough of that from me. I still had a laugh from that post, though.

 

Falcon Jun,

A lot has happened to the America that existed just before WWII and now.

I grew up remembering V-J day celebration on my Dad's shoulders in front of the county court house in Sweetwater TX. So I still love that America and am very fond of her now despite some disturbing signs.

I 'm afraid that the MSM (Main Stream Media) (then) clearly loved America and what she stood for. The media and its Stars served their country by doing morale movies for the public, trying to publish positive reports under clearly dismal circumstances, and joining the armed forces. They went to bat for America. God bless 'em all!!!

But by the 1960s, I started to notice that suddenly it was chic to be anti-US even in the US. And it got worse; the public school systems became more afraid of lawsuits than doing real teaching, and standards of academic excellence suffered. History texts belittled American accomplishments and heroes. Drugs and more of the domestic "Blame America for Everything" became a theme in the schools and universities.

During the Viet Nam war and well into the Seventies, the MSM started to lose focus...they couldn't differentiate between opinion and fact. Slowly the MSM became a "Fifth Column" adding to the arsenal of folks who were taught by our own system to blame and hate the US for anything and everything. It was and is the US's fault no matter who is in the White House.

At first it was barely evident. Bit today the MSM is in the tank for the current administration; one commentator gets a thrill in his leg when he hears Obama speak; another feels he has to bow to Obama, and yet a third referred to him as a god.

Now a major network is playing to allow the government (Obama) to shill his "health care" without discussions from the opposition. Newspapers have also followed suit. Suddenly, Obama in his "Apologizing for the US Global Tour" can do no wrong in the eyes of the US MSM. Obama is a product of the schools that "Blame-hate the US for everything". Even his wife wasn't proud of America. She is a real creation of the that same group as well.

With the advent of the internet, and cable TV, the MSM has been hit hard economically and continues to lose viewers and readers everyday partially due to the MSM's unwillingness to at least be more objective.

I can only hope that the federal government will not bail out failed MSM companies; if they do, then we will not have A Free Press in the US. It will be a State Controlled Press.

 

I take it that 'NOW' only the USA landed on D-DAY

 

No, just that the mainstream media would spin the story so it sounded like it was all of the US's fault.