Sinise Steps Up
Posted by B. Preston
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Actor Gary Sinise supports the troops and their mission:
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HIRSEN: What is your view of the way the media are portraying the military effort in Iraq and Afghanistan?
SINISE: It’s interesting. I did an interview recently, and after the interview was over I got into a conversation with the journalist who was interviewing me who had been to Iraq as an embedded reporter; you know, fairly supportive of the media. I got into questioning why there seemed to be such an imbalance of reporting coming out of Iraq, and not just an imbalance but an omission or a confusion as to what is really going on and what is the whole truth of what is happening in Iraq, because I get a lot of other types of reports from Iraq that I never get from the media.
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HIRSEN: What was it that you told the journalist?
SINISE: My point to this journalist [was] that I was disturbed at the media’s willingness … to go after the military regarding the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. It seemed like they could not put enough of those pictures on television enough times. We saw dozens and dozens and dozens of pictures daily, for two, three weeks, [showing] the lack of integrity of our military.
He [the journalist] said to me: “You know what, I don’t care. I think we should put those pictures on every day and all the time, and I have no problem with that.”
I said: “I can’t disagree with you that it was a horrible misstep by a bunch of dufusses in our military, about 15 of them. But on the other hand I would say, where is the other side of the story? Why, if you’re going to be so aggressive with depicting American troops in a negative manner, why not be just as aggressive to show the heroism of our service members?”
I brought up dozens of examples. There’s a woman, a major, who is like a superwoman over there, helping kids and delivering kerosene lamps and pulling Iraqis out from under trucks and saving people and doing all these things. You never hear about that kind of stuff. Yet it seems like they can’t wait to put bad news on.
I said, “You tell me. Why do we see one side of the story and not the other if there are two sides?” He paused, and then he said, “Well, bad news sells” —- and that’s all he could say.
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Rtwt. Like Ron Silver, Gary Sinise is one of the few in Hollywood who understands the enemy and the stakes in this war.
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