The AP makes me sick!

[Tuesday_Morning]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/1/2/235/93577

Great diary at dkos by theyrereal... talks about the audacious bias in this article:


AP Asks: Why So Many Upset by Iraq Death Toll?

Gee, I wonder....

My favorite parts:

Some wonder if U.S. society, now populated by baby boomers who recall Vietnam and never knew the hardships of the Great Depression or World War II, has simply lost its stomach for great sacrifices. Or perhaps in a materialistic culture, priorities are simply elsewhere now.

and...

Greater wealth and smaller families make Americans even more protective of their children and more loath to send them into battle than they once were, some argue. They are "sort of hothouse kids," says Harvey Sapolsky, the retired head of security studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who notes, "My grandparents had seven kids, my parents had two."

link to the AP article:

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003526309

[Maraya1969]

1. Usually when someone is proud of what they wrote they put their name on it!

I can't find one. Did the press machines just have a party during the night?

[Fierce]

2. Why is this bad? I think it's a great question.

It's a softball question that brings together the answers we claim to want: A majority of people think this war is useless.

[Tuesday_Morning]

7. It's pushing a particular narrative.

It's manipulative. It doesn't really discuss the whys and hows re: how the majority of people don't support the war. Nothing about the lies, the shifting of reasons were there, the profiteering. No facts. Instead, it editorializes, hiding behind unauthored phrases like: (this country's) "lost its stomach for great sacrifices."

If it were a real discussion re: support/lack of support for this war, I'd welcome it.

[Tuesday_Morning]

11. And, most importantly, I think

this is written with no real sense of the human cost of this war.

[Fierce]

12. Hm.

I guess I thought that's what a "great sacrifice" was.

Great as in large, not great as in a good thing.

[twilight_sailing]

3. Perhaps it is that we boomers

remember that we, America, killed between 1 and 3 million people, human souls, in our adventures in Vietnam.

And what was that for? Someone remind me.

[twilight_sailing]

4. "lost its stomach for great sacrifices"

Sacrifices for what, exactly?

No, I mean exactly. What?

[grasswire]

5. that's my question, too

Sacrifices? Perhaps Americans are smart enough to realize the nature of the sacrifice -- that the beneficiaries of that sacrifice are war profiteers and elite industrialists.

Ha! The people have wised up. And Bushco couldn't convince enough of them that the sacrifice was for freedom.

[twilight_sailing]

6. We have tax cuts during war time,

no rich kids I KNOW are in the Army, who is doing the sacrificing?

[Tuesday_Morning]

8. I like what theyrereal says here:

They come up with insulting and asinine theories like this one:

Greater wealth and smaller families make Americans even more protective of their children and more loath to send them into battle than they once were, some argue. They are "sort of hothouse kids," says Harvey Sapolsky, the retired head of security studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who notes, "My grandparents had seven kids, my parents had two."

Oh sure! Families were always willing to send a few of their excess litters off to die for the lie, back in the "good old days". It was like "Yeah, take old Charley. He's kinda dumb. And that other kid, whasshisname, that one hidin' behind the chair, he's kind of a runt, take him, too!".

[rock]

9. "My grandparents had seven kids, my parents had two"

Did either grow up to be adults?

[kickysnana]

10. Those generations wrote the Geneva Convention and started the UN

They didn't want any more such sacrifices for their descendants. This guy is just another chicken hawk pushing for the needless deaths of others for some romantic notion of war and death.

[spanone]

13. How about, when Americans are LIED into a war, they are unhappy????