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Fox News guest says ABC News is “Killing American Soldiers”
Former Army intelligence officer Lt. Col. Ralph Peters, in his recent book, “New Glory: Expanding America’s Global Supremacy,” Peters argues that the media should act as “combatants” in wartime:
"The media can no longer sustain their pretenses of being aloof, objective observers dispassionately recording events. The media are combatants." [New Glory: Expanding America’s Global Supremacy, Page 49]
Peters repeated this on Fox News on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2005. When asked about a recent ABC report that the CIA moved detainees out of secret prisons in Europe prior to Secretary of State Rice’s visit, he said:
When ABC or any other outlet gives away our national secrets, or verifies them, and underscores them by repeating what others have said, and seems to verify for the world — look, they are putting Americans at risk. They’re putting our allies at risk, as you observed. And they’re putting our programs at risk. … But worst of all, Bill, it’s killing American soldiers. [The O’Reilly Factor, 12/6/05]
Bill O’Reilly agreed with Peters’ new definition of the media:
"I would not have reported what ABC News reported. I would not have done it. I — as you know — didn’t put Abu Ghraib pictures on this broadcast, the only television journalist not to do so. I do feel that the press has a responsibility to help the government in the war on terror." [The O’Reilly Factor, 12/6/05]
Is this real? Am I living in the official State of Dystopia? What happened to a Free Press being essential to any democracy? And WHY DOES THIS BOOK HAVE AN AMERICAN FLAG DRAPED OVER THE ENTIRE GLOBE? I think this is the True Intent of the Neo-Cons. Global Domination. This sickens my soul. I am an American. I Will NOT TOLLERATE THIS!
And what does it say of our government which engages in secret, immoral, illegal practices to begin with? The writer makes no effort to deny Uncle Sam is doing these things ... Instead the media is blamed for telling the truth to the best of their ability? Would it be wrong to say that the government is endangering Americans and our soldiers by doing these horrible things? You decide. The new front on the "War on Terror" is at home, and it is being waged against the press - the last of those who would speak truth to power, even if it is meek and infrequent.
