Comments on: McClellan Missile: Media Crimes As War Crimes

by: Jay Janson

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 07:37:27 +0000

Danny, by using the term “Media War Crimes” in his title is pushing us in the right direction.

What is needed is for us non-capitalist journalists to make this term, “Media War Crimes” primary in all discussions.

For if we believe Albert Einstein to be correct in pointing out that the criminality in high places is not primary to the existence of evil, rather it is the indifference that allows it to happen, then the conglomerate owned media hand-maiden of corporate interests which not only promotes all wars by deception and half-truths, but more importantly promotes the indifference which permits the wars to continue.

Dante wrote, “The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who, in times of moral crisis, maintain neutrality.” But Dante wrote this centuries before any media CEOs and their cohorts and anchoring personnel existed.

by: caroline

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:53:03 +0000

It is appropriate even if a little too little too late, because the damage cannot be undone, to thank McClellan for finally telling the truth as many of us already knew it. I would not doubt it if he and others that will eventually confess will say that they were literally scared to death at the time to really say what what happening. The facts were out there all along, it is just that the majority of people were not looking for it or getting it from their nightly news.

by: (The Other) Katherine Harris

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:19:38 +0000

Yours is the most important response I’ve seen to Scotty’s tattling. The media should indeed be held criminally accountable — but most foot-soldier reporters are far less responsible than the decision-makers and, above all, media owners who also participated directly in war profiteering through other corporate entities. Holdings like that should be busted-up, pronto.

by: Timoth Michel

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 05:36:51 +0000

Thank you Danny for opening a window allowing us to see what a monumental act of bravery Scott McClellan’s admonitions must have been for someone so completely immersed in the machinery of this administration. I certainly didn’t consider the barrier of fear of breaking the silence that must surround someone in Scott McClellan’s position. He of course risks his career and any future place at the table of this administration or its spinoffs to help the rest of us understand the deceptions that lulled us into complicity with this administration’s thirst for war. One thing you forgot however, and that was to add the 2,976 that died on 9/11 itself to the total count of the number of dead this deception has left strewn across the globe. Let us remember those who died in World Trade Center Buildings 1 and 2 and never forget them.

by: Allene E. Swienckowski

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:54:27 +0000

I think that it will be difficult to prosecute journalists, et al in the MSM for their complicity in adiding and abetting an unjustified war. Nancy Pelosi took office and ststed that she and the dems wouldn’t seek impeachment against those in this administration. If governemnt refuses to police itself, even when warranted, we have a very long way to go to hold other people responsible for their actions. It would be a nice first step in improving our international relations if Bush and co, plus the media were held resposnsible for their egregious actions. Only time will tell if the American public will find the back bone to stand up and demand real justice.

by: Cord;ey Coit

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:14:46 +0000

Danny thank you for your courage in a time where there is very little room for the truth the light has been on and the roaches exposed for what they are.
The story is that the web is place where the truth was and is told and examined.