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AP article blames US for Iran airliner shootdown

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Posted by Herb McCoy 2020-01-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top
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#1 Vile. Disgusting. Criminal.
How does this garbage even get published?

Posted by Lex 2020-01-10 00:47|| 2020-01-10 00:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Hey Lex, you should be used to this by now.

Posted by g(r)omgoru PB 2020-01-10 03:41|| 2020-01-10 03:41|| Front Page Top

#3 An expected consequence of foreigners bringing you the news. Foreign news bureaus staffed by Americans are long dead. Lowest dollar salary is the lowest common denominator in an increasingly leftist and third world dominated field.

Posted by Gomez Ominter3435 2020-01-10 03:45|| 2020-01-10 03:45|| Front Page Top

#4 One reason Fred encourages reporting from elsewhere, however biased. So you can read what the locals/furriners are being told. Only slightly worse than our own domestic agitprop

Posted by Frank G 2020-01-10 05:54|| 2020-01-10 05:54|| Front Page Top

#5 And they wonder why we hate them.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-01-10 06:57|| 2020-01-10 06:57|| Front Page Top

#6 If you aim at it and hit it, it's not an accident. Best they can try for is "negligent discharge". Still culpable.

Posted by Mercutio 2020-01-10 07:40|| 2020-01-10 07:40|| Front Page Top

#7 Their industry is slowly disappearing; about 1,000 jobs lost each month in TV & print in the US. I can live with that, and they can learn to code.

Posted by Raj 2020-01-10 09:51|| 2020-01-10 09:51|| Front Page Top

#8 I remember back I think in the first Gulf war, some well known talking head admitted that if he had knowledge of an enemy ambush on American troops being planned, he'd feel no need to alert the US forces. Things have only gotten worse since then...

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-01-10 10:18|| 2020-01-10 10:18|| Front Page Top

#9 /\ #8, Are you recalling: " PBS journalism panel presses Mike Wallace, Peter Jennings to agree they would need to sell out American troops to maintain journalistic integrity (1989)"...?

Posted by magpie 2020-01-10 10:42|| 2020-01-10 10:42|| Front Page Top

#10 I remember that show vividly and how sanctimonious Wallace was about not warning Americans about the ambush. But the best part was the USMC Colonel’s reaction:

“Later, Ogletree noted the “venomous reaction” from George Connell, a Marine Corps colonel, who angrily declared: “I feel utter contempt. Two days later they’re both walking off my hilltop, they’re 200 yards away and they get ambushed. And they’re lying there wounded. And they’re going to expect I’m going to send Marines up there to get them. They’re just journalists, they’re not Americans....And Marines will die, going to get a couple of journalists.”

Posted by NoMoreBS 2020-01-10 11:35|| 2020-01-10 11:35|| Front Page Top

#11 "Journalistic integrity"? What's that? What's the frequency, Kenneth?

Posted by Lex 2020-01-10 11:54|| 2020-01-10 11:54|| Front Page Top

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