{"id":262,"date":"2001-10-25T19:02:00","date_gmt":"2001-10-25T23:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=262"},"modified":"2001-10-25T19:02:00","modified_gmt":"2001-10-25T23:02:00","slug":"abdication-of-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2001\/10\/25\/19\/02\/abdication-of-responsibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Abdication of Responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve heard this before, but I liked the way this guy<\/a> talked about the media’s abdication of responsibility:<\/p>\n

Talk of plot lines and demographics, sexiness and \u00ef\u00bf\u00bdwater-cooler\u00ef\u00bf\u00bd appeal have polluted a mission that is protected by its own constitutional amendment. Celebrity journalists interview celebrity dimwits about their sex lives, while American foreign policy is left running on auto-pilot.<\/i><\/p>\n

The hard truth is that the U.S. media left America as unprepared for these terrorist attacks as any Air Force general or CIA bureaucrat. As we dropped bombs on Iraq for 10 years running \u00ef\u00bf\u00bd justified or not \u00ef\u00bf\u00bd the U.S. media failed to report on it. Then suddenly, on Sept. 11, we think \u00ef\u00bf\u00bdWe\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdre at war\u00ef\u00bf\u00bd when in fact there hasn\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdt been a day since the Gulf War ended when an American aircraft hasn\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdt locked onto a target with a missile or bomb<\/b>. We were at war, it\u00ef\u00bf\u00bds just that the media didn\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdt think it was interesting enough to tell you about it.<\/i><\/p>\n

That\u00ef\u00bf\u00bds our lesson to learn.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve heard this before, but I liked the way this guy talked about the media’s abdication of responsibility: Talk of plot lines and demographics, sexiness and \u00ef\u00bf\u00bdwater-cooler\u00ef\u00bf\u00bd appeal have polluted a mission that is...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t