Wednesday, November 11, 2009

We demand all the facts

Subject: txt gwot nsec msm -
The first thing a journalist — I mean a real journalist — would do is tell you what actually happened. Like this: an American officer shot dead 13 soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas on Friday. Then the second thing a journalist — a real one — would do is to try to explain why.

You know, to help you make sense of this, and to help stop such a terrible thing from happening again.

This information was kept from the public for fear, I assume, that you might get the "wrong" idea - just as SBS after the September 11 attacks destroyed tape it had of the then mufti of Australia praising suicide bombers in his mosque, telling me it feared you might reach an "unfair" conclusion about this hate-preaching jihadist.

And the "wrong" idea you might have got from Friday's slaughter was this: here was yet another American Muslim on a jihad against his own country...

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