Sanchez: Media’s Reporting of Iraq War Endangered Soldiers’ Lives
Like I said, I talked to the powers that be at Fox, and got them to get the story straight. The headline above is theirs.
Fox:
WASHINGTON — The former top commander of coalition forces in Iraq may have called U.S. efforts there catastrophically flawed and unrealistically optimistic, but much of the criticism of the media by Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez has been left unreported.
In his speech to the Military Reporters and Editors Association in Washington, D.C., on Friday, Sanchez accused reporters of “unscrupulous reporting, solely focused on supporting an agenda and preconceived notions of the U.S. military.”
Without naming a specific company, Sanchez said “parent media organizations” have political agendas that direct the news coverage of the war and in some cases put U.S. service members in deadly situations.
“What is clear to me is that you are perpetuating the corrosive partisan politics that is destroying our country and killing our service members who are at war. My assessment is that your profession, to some, has strayed from these ethical standards and allowed external agendas to manipulate what the American public sees on TV, reads in newspapers and what they see on the Web,” Sanchez said.
In his speech Friday, Sanchez took aim at nearly everyone in Washington — from Congress to the State Department, the National Security Council to the Pentagon — for the conduct of the war, which he said had become “a nightmare with no end in sight.” He also saved no criticism for the current surge policy proposed by current Multinational Forces in Iraq commander Gen. David Petraeus and seen largely as a success
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Nice work Mister Dollard
October 14th, 2007 at 4:37 pmYes, Pat, I was, too, trolling the cable news channels this morning and caught that piece on Fox. I also caught an MSNBC piece on Sanchez that conveniently left out any mention of the knock on the media. And there are still sheeple in this country who don’t think the media is biased toward the left. Insane.
October 14th, 2007 at 5:02 pmEven Drudge fell for the MSM lies on this one. His headline from Friday thru Saturday was one taken right from the AP. Now there’s no mentiona at all. Maybe he got the message too.
October 14th, 2007 at 6:48 pmThose pathetic hacks are a dime a dozen…and as far as the tv media goes (off the top of my head),… Let’s see… who the F*ck watches Katie Couric, who can stomach Amanpour (she sincerely bullsh*ts herself and the monkeys around her) and what the F*ck is a Barbara Starr… Chris Mathews aka lard haul, beats a biased dead horse to the point of belligerence and nonsensicalness. What on earth do they have as an audience
I left quite a few out…but none of these people are allowed credibility for my news.
October 14th, 2007 at 9:17 pmpdate and correction on Saturday morning. Jim — Those people at MSNBC DO NOT HAVE an Audience. I love Football but as long as NBC has that Anti-American Punk OBERMAN on their net I will boycott NFL Football on NBC.God Bless the Troops and The USA !!
October 15th, 2007 at 6:33 amGriff
C’mon, it’s almost hilarious!
If you had wanted the media to provide an instant “existence proof” of the accuracy of Sanchez’ accusations, could you have asked for a better? 
October 17th, 2007 at 1:31 am