Ironically, it has now come out that MSNBC and CNN in particular cooperated with Montgomery Co. police by sitting on stories they had, for the public good. One reporter said that the code amongst journalists covering wars and the like, is not to report on strategy or troop movements in advance. Unfortunately, since Vietnam the US armed forces has come down very hard on the media and has not even allowed them to report on battles after they're over. So in this case the media, more or less, seem to have been cooperating with the police, to the common good.
Gary Smith wrote: > I think the media should use some self-censorship on occasion. It gets > too easy to destroy peoples' lives over small things. Imagine how WWII > would have gone if the media would have spent their time telling our > troop movements, or about FDR's extra-marital affairs, or his illness? > In the case at hand with the sniper, it was strategic use of the media > that put out the car description and Jersey plates that helped catch him. > Good for them for being a help, and not a hindrance in this issue. > The media should first be a defense of our rights and freedoms against > government. Next, they should help the public consider all sides of the > issues, so they can decide for themselves. Then, they should be a help to > society. Finally, they should be a source of entertainment. > > When they do this, Bravo. When they are only entertainment, or they > become too politicized on one side or the other, then they only become a > part of an unbalanced society, or worse, government. > > K'aya K'ama, > Gerald/gary Smith gszion1 @juno.com http://www > .geocities.com/rameumptom/index.html > "No one is as hopelessly enslaved as the person who thinks he's free." - > Johann Wolfgang von Goethe > > ________________________________________________________________ > > Sign Up for Juno Platinum Internet Access Today > > Only $9.95 per month! > > Visit www.juno.com > > ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// > /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// > ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > -- Marc A. Schindler Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada -- Gateway to the Boreal Parkland “We do not think that there is an incompatibility between words and deeds; the worst thing is to rush into action before the consequences have been properly debated…To think of the future and wait was merely another way of saying one was a coward; any idea of moderation was just an attempt to disguise one’s unmanly character; ability to understand a question from all sides meant that one was totally unfitted for action.” – Pericles about his fellow-Athenians, as quoted by Thucydides in “The Peloponessian Wars” Note: This communication represents the informal personal views of the author solely; its contents do not necessarily reflect those of the author’s employer, nor those of any organization with which the author may be associated. ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ==^^=============================================================== This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aaP9AU.bWix1n.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^^===============================================================
