Comments on: “Some Iraqis Express Doubts About New US Strategy:” why, who woulda thunk it? https://thenewneo.com/2007/01/10/some-iraqis-express-doubts-about-new/ A blog about political change, among other things Sat, 25 Jul 2009 10:52:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: TomTom https://thenewneo.com/2007/01/10/some-iraqis-express-doubts-about-new/#comment-22204 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 20:24:25 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/01/some-iraqis-express-doubts-about-new.html#comment-22204 Amen to you, Neo.

]]> By: Ymarsakar https://thenewneo.com/2007/01/10/some-iraqis-express-doubts-about-new/#comment-22205 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 19:30:43 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/01/some-iraqis-express-doubts-about-new.html#comment-22205 I’m waiting for Neo’s views on the President’s unveiling of the plan. Grist for another broadcast, really.

]]> By: Webutante https://thenewneo.com/2007/01/10/some-iraqis-express-doubts-about-new/#comment-22199 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:18:21 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/01/some-iraqis-express-doubts-about-new.html#comment-22199 As a reporter who once worked for a big city daily, I can tell you the greatest shock of that whole experience years ago was learning how news outlets shape and create the news.

Mondays were especially slow news days and so very prone to conjured up stories, twisted and limited only by the journalist’s own imagination. It was often shameful to watch, and particiate in.

Like inducing labor so that the doctor won’t have to come in to deliver a baby during his weekend round of golf, inducing the news keeps reporters off the streets during cocktail hours and times less convenient to the real work of reporting the news as it organically unfolds.

]]> By: Robert Schwartz https://thenewneo.com/2007/01/10/some-iraqis-express-doubts-about-new/#comment-22200 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:20:21 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/01/some-iraqis-express-doubts-about-new.html#comment-22200 The important point is that the MSM grinds this through the same mill they use for everything and get the same mush out. The opinions of the man in the street may or may not mean anything, and they may or may not have been invented by the writer sitting at his desk drinking a glass of gin.

Who pays them to put this stuff out?

]]> By: Ymarsakar https://thenewneo.com/2007/01/10/some-iraqis-express-doubts-about-new/#comment-22201 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 07:49:41 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/01/some-iraqis-express-doubts-about-new.html#comment-22201 Steve is right but the President is wrong, how that works, nobody knows.

]]> By: Steve https://thenewneo.com/2007/01/10/some-iraqis-express-doubts-about-new/#comment-22202 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 06:50:25 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/01/some-iraqis-express-doubts-about-new.html#comment-22202 Looks like a surge of 22 K. So, I was right about that too. But, we’ll see.

Meanwhile, “Sacred Mushroom and the Cross” can’t be taken too seriously but it is an interesting book.

]]> By: Ymarsakar https://thenewneo.com/2007/01/10/some-iraqis-express-doubts-about-new/#comment-22203 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 04:42:54 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/01/some-iraqis-express-doubts-about-new.html#comment-22203 You might want to read this post from B5 that covers Lies and Damned Lies quite well.

Link

And no, it isn’t as “innoculous” as the example you gave us of the media. Froggy also found his story via Google, as well Neo. So you have that in common with him.

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