Iwo Jima, If Covered By Media Today

Iwo Jima, If Covered By Media Today

We've tolerated the media imposing their views on the news and what news we receive. We see it daily in the war on terror. Zell Miller wrote a great article on what would have happened at Iwo Jima if it were covered by today's activist media. This was written a while ago but brought to my attention again when I was reviewing all my old bookmarks. It got my juices flowing again.

I Vietnam we started allowing the media to do more than just report the news. They have evolved into activists for their own personal political agenda. That's not what they are supposed to do. Yes they still have the same rights as everyone else but they need to remember their job is to report the news not interpret it. If they want to interpret the news that's what editorials are for. Their job is Who, what, when, where, why, how, that's it. They can give their personal views of the news on an op-ed page not on the nightly news.

Activist journalists of today would have cost us WWII just as they cost us Vietnam. They are as bad as activist judges in the courts. One tries to change things by manipulating public opinion the other tries to change society to their "ideal" by legislating from the bench.

Neither is doing their job. Reporters should report the news as it occurs not as they want it to have occurred. Judges should interpret the laws as written not as they would like it to be.

We've tolerated both and now we are suffering the consequences.