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Originally Posted by gem
Why should they blame the media when the media is only reporting what the military officials and the WH told them? Don't you think it'd be wiser to lay the blame precisely where it belongs? Or have you forgotten that the WH and the Pentagon said, from the beginning of this war, that they would be engaging in a campaign of disseminating misinformation?
Gem
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Much of what Tillman and Lynch have stated is based on media accounts, not official military sources. Where the military made a mistake in reporting on Tillmans death, it was corrected, but the media has already run with it. A football player who throws off millions to become an elite soldier and die heroically is a sensational story, as was Lynchs story. The military released a video of her rescue, they did not tell the media to talk about it for a week and turn her into a hero. Find me official sources in the military that sensationalized their stories and I might agree with you. But there is no evidence of that as of yet, as that article explains.