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To: Original Mad Dog who wrote (7266)4/28/2003 6:16:02 PM
From: Original Mad Dog  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 7689
 
"It was a glorious and wonderful picture that had a lot of people watching and a lot of advertisers excited about cable news," she said at the college's annual Landon Lecture in Manhattan. "But it wasn't journalism because I'm not so sure we in America are hesitant to do this again, to fight another war ... because it looked like a glorious and courageous and so successfully terrific endeavor."

-- Ashleigh Banfield

Let's see..... it wasn't journalism because -- BECAUSE!!! -- "I am not so sure we in America are hesitant to do this again, to fight another war ... because it looked like a glorious and courageous and so successfully terrific endeavor." So journalism, according to one journalist, is defined by whether it deters the audience from supporting another war, regardless of the justice of the cause? Journalism is defined by whether it succeeds in NOT portraying something as glorious and courageous and successfully terrific?

Well, what if it -- gasp -- really was glorious and courageous and successfully terrific? What if the courage of the British and American and Australian troops, their greeting in Baghdad with more cheers than bullets, their dignity in treating prisoners and wounded, their achievement in three weeks of what many said could never be done without the loss of tens of thousands of lives and months or years of quagmire -- what if all that really was successfully terrific???

Is it nevertheless bad journalism BECAUSE it did not produce a sufficiently and generalized feeling in the American populace that war is bad?

It seems to me that Banfield's statements directly imply that, if they don't state it outright. As for her past apologies for the suicide bombers, those speak for themselves. Perhaps Al Jazeera has a job opening. She'd fit right in.