20061204 How to Lose a War by The Baltimore Reporter

How to Lose a War by The Baltimore Reporter

Maryland Blogger Alliance member, The Baltimore Reporter has a must read post By Robert Farrow titled, “How to Lose a War!”

December 4th, 2006

He begins with a great Mark Twain quote: “Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media, for they will steal your HONOR. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse." -Mark Twain

“I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are." General William Sherman

Let’s set the wayback machine and pretend, shall we. Let’s pretend today’s media had been around in WWII and covered the attack on Pearl Harbor. ( …and lets pretend TV sets were common in 1941. ) So close your eyes and imagine a fuzzy black and white program as the announcer says…..

Read the rest here.