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Stories such as the one linked to above are a serious example of just what the mainstream media excel at doing. Trivializing the deaths of American troops, by an American is disgusting, to say the least.
J.D. Long summed it up pretty well, and the statements below are cross posted, and credited to him.
1.) You’re exactly right, Fred – relegating the ultimate sacrifice of four of America’s Finest to a “Meanwhile” paragraph is insulting, demeaning, and dehumanizing — and he needs to be fired for his callous tratment of human life. He also owes their families apologies.
2.) As an English Major, the whole paragraph is full of comma faults, run-on sentences, and grammatical errors. Here’s just a few:
In eastern Diyala province, meanwhile (Poor Construction, awkward phrasing), a bomb exploded near a U.S. military vehicle on Friday (The word “on” is uneccesary), killing four American soldiers in (”in” what? – incomplete sentence), the U.S. command said (The “U.S.Command” doesn’t “say” anything — it’s not a person — mismatched pronouns). They were the first American deaths reported in Iraq since Monday.
3.) And then these are the first deaths this week — and we’re not making a big deal about this????
4.) Finally, the article downplays the fact that this Sheik’s death has turned the Sunnis against al-Aqaeda!!! This is something to rejoice about!
Instead, it reads like a dreary little war dispatch that minimizes human life and misses the point entirely — with bad grammar thrown in as a sideshow.
Yeesh!
~~JD~~
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