I have tended to be less dismissive than people like Dymphna at the Gates of Vienna of the MSM because I see examples of good coverage. It is this that gives me hope that the MSM will manage to come to terms with the new media and the Internet. Here are three examples of good stuff I have read in the last 24 hours or so
The last one is a lady doing the job that more MSM journalists should do. She has a blog - the first link above and also on my sidebar - and is embedded with the Stryker brigade based out of Fairbanks Alaska which is where the News Miner originates. More to the point she makes very clear that she is willing to set her preconceptions aside and learn and, as a result, so do we her readers. If every newspaper in the US which hailed from an area which has a signifcant slice of personnel in the "sandbox" found a cub journalist and embedded him or her with the "local" regiment/brigade/division then I bet that
their circulations would increase (or at least not decrease)
we'd have a far better informed general public
From the statements by Bill Roggio and others, not to mention official statements by the US Military's public affairs folks, I think such an embed program would be welcomed with open arms. So why is it that the only papers who seem to have "sandbox" presence are the major metro dailies a.k.a. the liberal apeasement minded MSM? (Hat Tip re the News Miner to MurdocOnline)
UpdateOne of my favourite quotes seems remarkable appropriate here: "I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. If I killed them all this evening they would be reporting news from Hell before breakfast." General William Tecumseh Sherman