Comments on: Apple Crisp or Dutch Apple Pie? http://fix4rso.com/2007/02/08/apple-crisp-or-dutch-apple-pie/ Redball R-Square of your broken Nav and Intel Systems keeping you oncourse to the truth! Fri, 18 May 2012 10:38:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Mike@CopTheTruth http://fix4rso.com/2007/02/08/apple-crisp-or-dutch-apple-pie/#comment-16557 Mike@CopTheTruth Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:54:41 +0000 http://fix4rso.com/2007/02/08/apple-crisp-or-dutch-apple-pie/#comment-16557 No freaking way. Having a 'military desk' - staffed by prior military people - might result in the MSM actually doing positive stories on our military....and we can't have that now, can we? No freaking way. Having a ‘military desk’ - staffed by prior military people - might result in the MSM actually doing positive stories on our military….and we can’t have that now, can we?

]]> By: cary http://fix4rso.com/2007/02/08/apple-crisp-or-dutch-apple-pie/#comment-16482 cary Fri, 09 Feb 2007 15:09:14 +0000 http://fix4rso.com/2007/02/08/apple-crisp-or-dutch-apple-pie/#comment-16482 In regards to the "reporter" - what a clueless twit. In regards to every newsroom needing a military desk - why can't the individual reporters actually, you know, like, "research" their information through milblogs themselves? Twits. In regards to the “reporter” - what a clueless twit.

In regards to every newsroom needing a military desk - why can’t the individual reporters actually, you know, like, “research” their information through milblogs themselves?

Twits.

]]> By: Buck http://fix4rso.com/2007/02/08/apple-crisp-or-dutch-apple-pie/#comment-16481 Buck Fri, 09 Feb 2007 14:51:05 +0000 http://fix4rso.com/2007/02/08/apple-crisp-or-dutch-apple-pie/#comment-16481 I read something (somewhere...maybe it was Lileks) recently where the writer said every newsroom <i>needs</i> a "military desk" or at the very least, a journalist who had served in the military. That's a pretty good idea. OTOH, with the prevalence of milblogs these days, it wouldn't be beyond the pale to hire a milblogger to serve as a military consultant. Chief duties would be to "fact-check" articles like these before publication. A fairly simple way to avoid screwing your credibility. On the other, other hand...This person obviously had/has an agenda. And that agenda wouldn't be well served by writing truthfully. Finally...I saw this article quoted to Gen. Pace by some numb-nutted Senator when he and Gates were testifying before the Senate Armed Services committee last week. The senator was questioning whther or not the military was preparing troops adequately for combat and used the Chron article as his source. Gen. Pace begged off, claiming he hadn't seen the article... I read something (somewhere…maybe it was Lileks) recently where the writer said every newsroom needs a “military desk” or at the very least, a journalist who had served in the military. That’s a pretty good idea. OTOH, with the prevalence of milblogs these days, it wouldn’t be beyond the pale to hire a milblogger to serve as a military consultant. Chief duties would be to “fact-check” articles like these before publication. A fairly simple way to avoid screwing your credibility.

On the other, other hand…This person obviously had/has an agenda. And that agenda wouldn’t be well served by writing truthfully.

Finally…I saw this article quoted to Gen. Pace by some numb-nutted Senator when he and Gates were testifying before the Senate Armed Services committee last week. The senator was questioning whther or not the military was preparing troops adequately for combat and used the Chron article as his source. Gen. Pace begged off, claiming he hadn’t seen the article…

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