Comments on: ‘Twas ever thus: the press vs. the military, and vice versa https://thenewneo.com/2007/10/25/twas-ever-thus-the-press-vs-the-military-and-vice-versa/ A blog about political change, among other things Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:39:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 By: armchair pessimist https://thenewneo.com/2007/10/25/twas-ever-thus-the-press-vs-the-military-and-vice-versa/#comment-45047 Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:39:48 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/10/25/twas-ever-thus-the-press-vs-the-military-and-vice-versa/#comment-45047 I’m with Uncle Billy Sherman. Anybody know where he’s buried? “Wake up, General! Wake up! There’s work to be done”

]]> By: camojack https://thenewneo.com/2007/10/25/twas-ever-thus-the-press-vs-the-military-and-vice-versa/#comment-44977 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 07:59:48 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/10/25/twas-ever-thus-the-press-vs-the-military-and-vice-versa/#comment-44977 General Lee truly was a gentleman and a scholar.

]]> By: sergey https://thenewneo.com/2007/10/25/twas-ever-thus-the-press-vs-the-military-and-vice-versa/#comment-44976 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 07:37:52 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/10/25/twas-ever-thus-the-press-vs-the-military-and-vice-versa/#comment-44976 “It gives one pause to think what the presence of bloggers would have created in the mid 19th century”
Something like presence of printed books in 17 century – the Reformation.

]]> By: Dan https://thenewneo.com/2007/10/25/twas-ever-thus-the-press-vs-the-military-and-vice-versa/#comment-44973 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 03:22:50 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/10/25/twas-ever-thus-the-press-vs-the-military-and-vice-versa/#comment-44973 It gives one pause to think what the presence of bloggers would have created in the mid 19th century

]]> By: Ymarsakar https://thenewneo.com/2007/10/25/twas-ever-thus-the-press-vs-the-military-and-vice-versa/#comment-44963 Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:10:21 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/10/25/twas-ever-thus-the-press-vs-the-military-and-vice-versa/#comment-44963 Unfortunately, all too often, the press errs on the side of being oppositional in a kneejerk manner, rather than achieving the balance that would be most beneficial to everyone.

Back then, the press could have made a case that they knew more than the people they were informing. Now a days, Neo, that doesn’t cut the steel rod anymore.

]]> By: Ymarsakar https://thenewneo.com/2007/10/25/twas-ever-thus-the-press-vs-the-military-and-vice-versa/#comment-44962 Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:08:37 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/10/25/twas-ever-thus-the-press-vs-the-military-and-vice-versa/#comment-44962 We no longer need the press for an informed citizenry, Neo. They are superfluous, and exist only because of social, bureacratic, business, or technological inertial.

The military, former and current, are quite adequate at informing the citizens concerning what is going on.

]]> By: DC https://thenewneo.com/2007/10/25/twas-ever-thus-the-press-vs-the-military-and-vice-versa/#comment-44959 Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:38:09 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/10/25/twas-ever-thus-the-press-vs-the-military-and-vice-versa/#comment-44959 TNR was/is in a no win position on this. Admitting their folly would seem to require rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic for a second time. The embellished nature of the stories was completely obvious, especially where Beauchamp has this kid standing waist deep in sewage.

]]> By: Americaneocon https://thenewneo.com/2007/10/25/twas-ever-thus-the-press-vs-the-military-and-vice-versa/#comment-44954 Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:12:47 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/10/25/twas-ever-thus-the-press-vs-the-military-and-vice-versa/#comment-44954 Sending this NYT piece on Giuliani’s neoconservative forieign policy for your review:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/25/us/politics/25giuliani.html?_r=2&ref=todayspaper&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Have a great day1

]]> By: Tertium Quid https://thenewneo.com/2007/10/25/twas-ever-thus-the-press-vs-the-military-and-vice-versa/#comment-44940 Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:51:49 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/10/25/twas-ever-thus-the-press-vs-the-military-and-vice-versa/#comment-44940 General George Meade tied a reporter to a horse facing the backend and rode him out of his camp.

The revenge of the newspapermen of the time was to ignore Gen. Meade, victor at Gettysburg, for the rest of the war. They killed his postwar career, though I don’t know if he had political ambitions or not. After Gettysburg, he could have likely run for U.S. Senate or President.

]]> By: Richard Aubrey https://thenewneo.com/2007/10/25/twas-ever-thus-the-press-vs-the-military-and-vice-versa/#comment-44937 Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:34:54 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/10/25/twas-ever-thus-the-press-vs-the-military-and-vice-versa/#comment-44937 See “Blackfive”, on the Calvan blog.
The moron gave a US soldier some attitude and blogged about it. He got so much stuff in his comments that he finally figured out he wasn’t as much of a stud as he’d thought.
So he pulled the blog, thinking it would all go away.
Blackfive has links to sites which have saved the entire thing.

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