Fox Guest Says ABC News Is “Killing American Soldiers”

[RedEarth]

Fox Guest Says ABC News Is “Killing American Soldiers”

You might think that in a free society the media should find the facts and truthfully report them to the public. But former Army intelligence officer Lt. Col. Ralph Peters disagrees. In his recent book, “New Glory: Expanding America’s Global Supremacy,” Peters argues that the media should act as “combatants” in wartime:

The media can no longer sustain their pretenses of being aloof, objective observers dispassionately recording events. The media are combatants.

Peters took his thesis to Fox News last night. When asked about a recent ABC report that the CIA moved detainees out of secret prisons in Europe prior to Secretary of State Rice’s visit, he said:

When ABC or any other outlet gives away our national secrets, or verifies them, and underscores them by repeating what others have said, and seems to verify for the world — look, they are putting Americans at risk. They’re putting our allies at risk, as you observed. And they’re putting our programs at risk. … But worst of all, Bill, it’s killing American soldiers.

Bill O’Reilly agreed with Peters’ new definition of the media:

I would not have reported what ABC News reported. I would not have done it. I — as you know — didn’t put Abu Ghraib pictures on this broadcast, the only television journalist not to do so. I do feel that the press has a responsibility to help the government in the war on terror.

Funny, and we thought freedom of the press was a fundamental democratic value.

http://thinkprogress.org/2005/12/07/abc-killing-americans/

[Dark]

1. Yes, because everything the government does is moral and good. n/t

[rodeodance]

2. unfortuately--much of the media has become an arm of the WH!!

.....Funny, and we thought freedom of the press was a fundamental democratic value.

[rodeodance]

3. gawd--the title of his book is scary stuff!!

...You might think that in a free society the media should find the facts and truthfully report them to the public. But former Army intelligence officer Lt. Col. Ralph Peters disagrees. In his recent book, “New Glory: Expanding America’s Global Supremacy,” Peters argues that the media should act as “combatants” in wartime:

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. This kind of reasoning was taboo after the nazis applied it

But now that 60 years have past and memories have faded, it all sounds pretty good to these maniacs.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

5. And veterans inability to procure proper mental and physical

healthcare is helping to live a long an healthful existence. Now I get it.

[Erika]

6. How about pics of the dead & maimed innocent Iraqis

The WH and the News have kept a lid on them since Shock and Awe. You know, the little 11 year old boy that both his arms were shot off by our bombs?

W wasn't want anything revealed about the truth and horror of this war on the Iraqi people.

We should all commend News stations that have the guts to tell and show the truth about W's war.

[BuyingThyme]

7. Me to Fox News:

YOU killed American soldiers when YOU lied us into war.

[WearyOne]

8. no, Fox News Is “Killing American Soldiers” and is that the Bill O'Reilly

who wants Al Qaeda to bomb San Francisco ?

[CarpeDiebold]

9. give them a history book for christmas

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
-George Washington

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official...
-Theodore Roosevelt


We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
-Edward R. Murrow


It is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.
-Theodore Roosevelt


A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
-Alexander Solzhenitsyn

[newyawker99]

11. CarpeDiebold!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[A Simple Game]

10. The press should keep quiet when they see the government

doing illegal things.

Policemen should turn the other way when they see crimes committed.

Same difference, right O'Reilly?