Monday - March 28, 2005

And The Media Is “What” Again??

After seeing this article in the paper Saturday and reading the linguistic twists and turns the magazine took to try to cover their asses, I can only come to the conclusion that there is absolutely no doubt our print media has no love for our soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines.

In a nutshell, Harper’s magazine wrote a story about deserters and used a picture of Marines who had just arrived at boot camp and had yet to have their hair shorn or anything else.

Of course, what’s a normal person to do?  See the headline, look at the picture, and assume the people in the picture are the deserters.

Except one of them is a local boy.  And he is not AWOL.  Nor is he a deserter.  And now people are upset.

I say, “sue the fuck out of Harper’s.  Get a good lawyer and bring them to their knees.”

This is an example of the linguistic torturing Harper uses:

the Marines are not meant to depict people in the article.

“We are decorating pages,” said Giulia Melucci, the magazine’s vice president for public relations. “We are not saying the soldiers are AWOL. Our covers are not necessarily representative.”

So the next time I look at a magazine and it has an article about the richest men in America and I see a picture of Bill Gates or the Waltons I’m supposed to think what?  That it’s a story about some homeless guys?  What fucktards!

I guess they were more afraid of offending actual military members who were AWOL or deserters than they were of smearing the good names and faces of loyal Marines.  Of course, there’s probably more truth in that last sentence that we’d all care to admit.

And if that weren’t bad enough, Harpers manipulated and modified the images they got from a studio.  That’s taboo in the “stock” world.

Assholes!!!  I look forward to their demise.

Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler     on 03/28/2005 at 06:36 AM   
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