{"id":14948,"date":"2009-10-08T07:30:03","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T12:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=14948"},"modified":"2009-10-08T07:30:03","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T12:30:03","slug":"cnn-chasing-ambulances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14948","title":{"rendered":"CNN chasing ambulances"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nucsnipe sent us an article from his hometown newspaper<\/a> about an AWOL soldier turning himself over to authorities;<\/p>\n

A former Woodford County man who had been absent without leave from the U.S. Army for half a year turned himself in to Illinois State Police on Monday.<\/p>\n

Spc. Don Gartin, 25, was accompanied by a crew from CNN when he walked into the state police station near Metamora on Monday, exiting a short time later in handcuffs with officers. He was taken to the Woodford County jail in Eureka and was expected to be transferred to Army custody on Thursday or Friday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Gartin did 15 months in Iraq and according to his AKO account, he’s an infantryman in the 1st AD in an infantry battalion – so I’m not going to second-guess his claims that he suffers from PTSD. However, I think CNN acting as if they have the soldiers’ best interests in their collective shriveled little heart is pretty despicable.<\/p>\n

Gartin was interviewed via the Internet by CNN a week ago from an undisclosed location, and he later made arrangements for representatives of the television news network to accompany him when he surrendered.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, if CNN had met with him and convinced him to turn himself in and got an interview afterward, that would be responsible journalism – but they interviewed him a week before he turned himself in and then accompanied him to the police station as if they were some sort of protection for him. That’s irresponsible.<\/p>\n

Journalists have become nothing but ambulance-chasing greaseballs interested in nothing but putting their spin on the news – and that’s the case here. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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