{"id":30060,"date":"2012-05-22T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T12:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30060"},"modified":"2012-05-22T09:04:59","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T13:04:59","slug":"why-the-military-times-is-a-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30060","title":{"rendered":"Why The Military Times Is A Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At the Military Blogging Conference a few weeks ago, Jonn made the case (rightly so) for going after the media and calling them out when they do wrong. Well what happens when the media is supposed to be “our media.” The publications and press that cover the military exclusively?<\/p>\n

We’ll call them out too.<\/p>\n

This is the latest cover of the Marine Corps Times, which falls under the umbrella of the Military Times. Take a good look. It’s not Weekly World News, Star Magazine, or the National Enquirer. It’s a publication that is sold at every Marine Corps installation and read by Marines worldwide.<\/p>\n

The most important story, or lead, is about a “swinger couple”. That’s the attention grabber. That’s the one that’s supposed to make you pick this up and take it to the register and put down three dollars and fifty cents.<\/p>\n

Now look to the right: 2 Navy Crosses<\/a>, which they then term, “Legendary Badassery”. Yeah, that was certainly the case. Then right below that, the Faces of the Fallen. Apparently the fact that two Marines earned our nation’s second-highest award isn’t exciting enough.<\/p>\n

During the engagement, Wooldridge snatched a machine gun from the hands of an enemy fighter and, following a tense struggle on the ground, killed his opponent by striking him in the head with the weapon\u2019s butt stock. The remaining Taliban then retreated, ending a potentially deadly ambush against Wooldridge\u2019s platoon, according to an account of the battle provided to Marine Corps Times in late 2010.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This must be a pretty boring story, according to Military Times. The rest of the media will not cover these amazing acts of heroism — at least not enough. They are brushed aside as one-minute segments at the end of the broadcast, pushed to page D12 of the newspaper and forgotten. Politics, the economy, and what Lady Gaga is wearing is much more important.<\/p>\n

And Military Times has fallen in line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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