Posts Made By: mike welsh

will be reading the names of US service people who have lost their lives to date in Iraq. Haven't heard much else about how it will be presented, and i cannot watch because i have no TV.

i have gotten this from Common Cause today:

"Common Cause CauseNET

Gagging Ted Koppel: Action Needed Today!

Sinclair Broadcast Group, one of the largest owners of TV stations
across the country, yesterday made a unilateral decision to deprive
hundreds of thousands of viewers the right to see tonight's Nightline
broadcast honoring the soldiers killed in Iraq. That a corporation can
tell the citizens in the communities they are supposed to serve that
they have no right to view this program shows the incredible power of
media consolidation."

(edit...)

"Sinclair executives claim the Nightline segment was partisan and
anti-war, and thus decided to pre-empt it in the markets where it owns
ABC affiliates. ABC said that the broadcast was intended to be "an
expression of respect which simply seeks to honor those who have laid
down their lives for this country."

Senator John McCain, in a letter to Sinclair, stated its "decision to
deny your viewers an opportunity to be reminded of war's terrible
costs, in all their heartbreaking detail, is a gross disservice to the
public, and to the men and women of the United States Armed Forces. It
is, in short, sir, unpatriotic. I hope it meets with the public
opprobrium it most certainly deserves."



www.commoncause.org


Thoughts?

"To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer."

-Saadi, poet (c. 1200 AD)

That's the reaction from Mr. Bush.

He "didn't like it."

Gee, such a strong reaction! THAT'LL be effective!

Where's the outrage? In one week ANY good the US may have accomplished in Iraq has been erased. Buried. Gone.

Why are "civilian contractors" allowed ANY contact with Iraqi POWs and detainees?

Why haven't the entire contingent of guards been summarily replaced yet, pending FULL investigation of the charges?

Where are the "rolling heads?"

6 criminal charges. Some reprimands. Some letters of rebuke.

A whole nation of outraged Iraqis who now truly believe that we're no better than Saddam.

"Mission accomplished."

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
-George Bernard Shaw, writer, Nobel laureate (1856-1950)

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.
-Henny Youngman, comedian, actor (1906-1998)

"Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call
forth approbation, and a wicked deed disapprobation, the doer of the deed,
whether good or wicked always deserves respect or pity as the case may be."

-Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

"Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth."

-Richard Whately, philosopher, reformer, theologian,economist (1787-1863)

"Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth."

-Richard Whately, philosopher, reformer, theologian,economist (1787-1863)

"As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints."

-Charles Caleb Colton, author and clergyman (1780-1832)

...don't like to talk about.

From today's Seattle P.I.