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Gen. Sanchez: The Major Media is Responsible for Troop Deaths
While the major media blared headlines about retired Lt. Gen. Sanchez’s comments about Iraq being a “nightmare”, they conveniently failed to report his comments about their coverage of the war resulted in some of our troops being killed:
Sanchez: Media’s Reporting of Iraq War Endangered Soldiers’ Lives
Sunday, October 14, 2007WASHINGTON — 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.
Red State Rascals
October 18th, 2007 at 9:43 pm
[…] we reported earlier, Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez said much more than “Iraq is a nightmare” in a recent […]