Monday, August 22, 2011

Marine, don't look at this post ...

Hey, it's kick the media day at CDRSalamander! So much material ....

Back to the media-military divide? The reasons that the military is so distrustful and in some ways hostile to the major media outlets are legion - but one is that they are too lazy even to have an interest in getting the basics right.

Perfect example - you want to post a belly-button picking reprint of a speech that might have to do a bit with the, ahem, "Cult of the Uniform." You go to the Getty image bundle and search for "uniform." You say - "Hey, there's one!" You pick it and run.

The editors say it is fine, and after all - you are the NYT writing on the military and all the military looks the same anyways; what could go wrong?

BEHOLD!


Lazy, ignorant - wait, scratch that - stupid and insulting.
UPDATE: Greyhawk has some good commentary on the substance of the issue.


Hat tip Steve.