The Politico: Editorial pages turn on war
By: Alicia C. Shepard
Jul 31, 2007
With painstaking deliberation and some reluctance, one by one, newspapers in both liberal and conservative states have begun calling for President Bush to bring home the troops.
These carefully considered editorials don't usually mention a date or a troop number for withdrawal. But none are willing to give President Bush more chances, nor do they support waiting until September, when Army Gen. David Petraeus will deliver a key report on progress in Iraq.
Whether this signals a Walter Cronkite turning point (vis-à-vis the Vietnam War) remains to be seen. But media observers say it represents a marked change, since newspapers have remained largely silent on troop withdrawal until recently.
"It is easy to find papers that have been harshly critical of the conduct of the war, but you can't confuse that with calling for a major change in direction or pullout," said Greg Mitchell, editor of Editor and Publisher magazine, which covers the newspaper industry. "The New York Times is a good example of being bitter for years but not calling for withdrawal" -- until it finally did so on July 8.
Still, the Times' stance is hardly a philosophical reach. It's when papers in more conservative areas -- Roanoke, Va.; Portsmouth, N.H.; Olympia, Wash.; and the Texas cities of Fort Worth and Dallas -- call for withdrawals or immutable deadlines that the public's growing distaste for this war becomes most vividly reflected....[Open in new window]
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It's funny (it's really not funny, it's tragic) but the only place you hear support for the occupation of Iraq & the other nefarius doings of the US in the mid-east is on broadcast media coming from the mouths of of Israel-First neo-con burnouts & apologists for Wall Street war profiteering.
Maybe we need a 'truth in think tank name' law. How do these sound?:
THE ISRAEL FIRST NEO-CON BURNOUT INSTITUTE
or
THE DADDY WARBUCKS INSTITUTE
(Later we can rename the big churches with an eye on truthfulness.)
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By: Alicia C. Shepard
Jul 31, 2007
With painstaking deliberation and some reluctance, one by one, newspapers in both liberal and conservative states have begun calling for President Bush to bring home the troops.
These carefully considered editorials don't usually mention a date or a troop number for withdrawal. But none are willing to give President Bush more chances, nor do they support waiting until September, when Army Gen. David Petraeus will deliver a key report on progress in Iraq.
Whether this signals a Walter Cronkite turning point (vis-à-vis the Vietnam War) remains to be seen. But media observers say it represents a marked change, since newspapers have remained largely silent on troop withdrawal until recently.
"It is easy to find papers that have been harshly critical of the conduct of the war, but you can't confuse that with calling for a major change in direction or pullout," said Greg Mitchell, editor of Editor and Publisher magazine, which covers the newspaper industry. "The New York Times is a good example of being bitter for years but not calling for withdrawal" -- until it finally did so on July 8.
Still, the Times' stance is hardly a philosophical reach. It's when papers in more conservative areas -- Roanoke, Va.; Portsmouth, N.H.; Olympia, Wash.; and the Texas cities of Fort Worth and Dallas -- call for withdrawals or immutable deadlines that the public's growing distaste for this war becomes most vividly reflected....[Open in new window]
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It's funny (it's really not funny, it's tragic) but the only place you hear support for the occupation of Iraq & the other nefarius doings of the US in the mid-east is on broadcast media coming from the mouths of of Israel-First neo-con burnouts & apologists for Wall Street war profiteering.
Maybe we need a 'truth in think tank name' law. How do these sound?:
THE ISRAEL FIRST NEO-CON BURNOUT INSTITUTE
or
THE DADDY WARBUCKS INSTITUTE
(Later we can rename the big churches with an eye on truthfulness.)
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