Who’s preventing the MSM from showing our soldier’s flag-draped caskets?

Proof positive that no one gives a rat's ass unless it reflects badly on the adminstration.

People like this only give a damn when it suits their political purposes. Never mind about SOLDIERS, their STORIES, their FAMILIES, their HEROISM. Let's see them CASKETS!

I don't agree with the ban, but I understand, as a military wife and Army veteran, why DoD wants to prevent returning caskets from being turned into a media circus.

(head shaking)

Bullshit.

The stories are out there. I read them everyday. I forward them to my friends. I print them out. I read their heart-warming stories on the America-Supports-You website (that the government is pushing all over the place, but no one in the MSM seems to have picked up on). I hang pictures of these heroes in my cube at work (SFC Smith's photo is smiling at me right now). I watch them on C-SPAN. I visit them at Walter Reed. The military is doing all it can to get the word out. You cannot blame them if the MSM and the average Joe doesn't give a damn.

You first have to actually GIVE a rat's ass.

Then you have to be paying attention.

Then you have to be willing to watch an interview with them on C-SPAN, as opposed to watching some ridiculous Barbara Walter's interview with some slutty little twit who makes millions, yet contributes nothing of any value, really, to American society.

I could count a hundred different ways the military and the government are trying to get the Army's story out on the street.

And then I could count 200 ways the public and MSM are resisting it, in favor of the low-brow, pop culture entertainment industry.

It's not like the individual heroism of specific men and women either burnishes or despoils the president's reputation, unless you wish to argue that he somehow is the one actually fighting this war. When I first saw the article, I immediately thought, "The two names we've heard a lot were Jessica Lynch and Pat Tillman, and both of those stories ended up being much more complicated than the military's initial depiction."

It's not quoted in the post above, but the article points this out as well. The mainstream media spread the stories about those two heroes very well -- and then did an equally good job when they had to tell the story with the details the military initially didn't release.

I think the article is correct in depicting this as a choice made by the president and the military, not by the media. The media loves celebrities, loves having people to put on TV and whose faces on magazines will sell copies.

Try searching whitehouse.gov for a mention of Sgt. Hester -- I found nothing, and you can hardly call that a MSM, Bush-hating outlet.

Paul Smith's stand was worthy of Greek legend. Mark Mitchell scaled a wall in Afghanistan using a borrowed turban to rescue a captured CIA agent. Teresa Broadwell was so short she stood on tip toe to fire her weapon but she held off an ambush until help arrived. Leigh Ann Hester went from running a small shoe store to assaulting an entrenched enemy with one other soldier.

There are a lot of heroes, but no one to print their stories.