By The Kansas City Star Editorial Board
Maintaining public support for U.S. involvement in two wars is difficult for any administration.
George W. Bush faced it when he was president; now Barack Obama does. But it doesn’t benefit any president or the military to try to hamstring press coverage of the wars in an effort to gain favorable public backing.
It always works against the administration once the shenanigans are revealed. Stars and Stripes, an editorially independent newspaper that receives Defense Department funding, recently reported that the U.S. military had a contract with a private public relations firm based in Washington, D.C., to “profile” journalists.
The Rendon Group rated journalists’ previous work as “positive,” “negative” or “neutral.”
Stars and Stripes reported that the secret profiles were used by military officials to prevent “disfavored reporters” from being embedded with the troops in Afghanistan.
U.S. military officials deny the allegation, saying the reports provided background information on the journalists enabling commanders to know about the reporters assigned to their units and the topics that might interest those journalists.
However, authorities were wise to terminate the $1.5 million media analysis contract. It didn’t pass the smell test of the military trying to control the independent work of the press.
News organizations must be free to cover the war without predetermined and secret conditions. The military needs to be above even the appearance of a conflict of interest in the press-Pentagon relationship to ensure accurate, fair and balanced reporting on the war in Afghanistan and in Iraq.
The credibility of the press and the Pentagon depends on news organizations maintaining their unrestricted role as the nation’s fourth estate watching over government. The public needs unfettered reporting from the best journalists.
No shortcuts or half-stepping can be tolerated in the military winning the public’s trust in wartime. Manipulating the news media under any circumstances is the wrong approach.
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It is a wise course of action to know who you are dealing with? The press and reporters in general have shown themselves to be less than objective in many circumstances. Is it not advisable that a Commander know who he is dealing with? It makes perfect sense to me for the commander to want to know if a particular reporter is spinning his reports towards the negative, positive or is fair. All we want (I use we because I spent 23 plus years on active duty) is a reporter that will tell the story in a truthful and straight forward manner. It has been my experience that the majority of reporters do it this way when embedded with units. However all it takes is the one who sensationalizes a story to undo all of the good that the rest have done. Commander’s need to know who they are dealing with. It’s part of prepping the battlefield.
Controversy v. Governance
Everyone tries to influence the press all of the time—including wartime. The press tries to influence its readers/viewers all of the time. Manipulation is simply a stronger form of influence. Influence relies more or reasoning; manipulation on distortion through misinformation and/or hiding information. Sometimes it’s a fine line and sometimes the line is blurred; but generally the ones trying to influence are doing it because they think they are right. I thought the Bush Administration manipulated the country into the war in Iraq; but I have never doubted that they thought it was the right thing to do.
The idea of a neutral press may be fairly new. Years ago cities had more than one paper and people tended to pick the one that agreed with their preconceived ideas of truth. As television grew and papers decreased, there was a desire to be more balanced. Now with cable news and the internet we are going back to getting information that supports our own view.
I think the Star’s editorial staff tilts left generally; but I think they mostly try to stir things up. All media make money by having the most readers/viewers they can get (I am endlessly amused by the people who say “I gave up my subscription because . . .,” and yet comment (and apparently read the Star) daily). They generally try to slow down front runners to create a race.
I do think the media was for Obama, not because he is liberal, but because it made such an interesting story. I always thought the reason the press tilted toward Bush in 2000 was they found Gore boring.
I think the press has been overly critical of Obama the past few months because they thought the Republicans needed a little help. The media likes a 50-50 country where everything is a fight. They love to cover the contest and appear little concerned with governance.
Hell of a way to run a country, though.
You Mean the Press Should be Free
so that the AP can publish a picture of a solider passing away that his family and the Sec. of Defense PLEADED with them no to do?
You MSM people are a hoot... You could give a damm about objective reporting, you just want to get your DNC talking points out... Don't talk to me about objectivity, you have long sense lost same...
Really?
I haven't seen what I would call objective reporting in the Star in YEARS.
The Star completely refused to vet Obama during the campaign.
The Star refused to even mention Van Jones, other than one brief mention which really talked more about Gibbs than Jones until AFTER he had resigned.
I see no investigative reports from the Star on anything REAL. Editorials are a joke, and frequently repeat over and over specific members pet prejudices.
Real Journalism is nearly dead. The 2008 election was the death knell for journalists. That 99.9% of the media openly advocated for a candidate and still do his bidding on a daily basis, rather than REPORTING on the election and current events has the result of no intelligent person believing anything they write or say. A very few still abide by the standards, none at the Star do.
This editorial is a joke,
This editorial is a joke, right? This is too funny. They really should have waited a few days to print this one after the glaring ommission of any articles about Van Jones. Talk about manipuation.
Thank goodness this administration is so "open and transparent" that there's nothing for them to report.
I wonder if all the main stream media can hear the whole country laughing at them?
This part is true.
"The public needs unfettered reporting from the best journalists."
I guess we can all dream. I don't think the media can blame all their failures on the Pentagon.
The Star adds: "Manipulating the news media under any circumstances is the wrong approach."
The news media is too busy manipulating the news themselves. Did we hear one question from the media about Van Jones before Glenn Beck brought it up? And after Beck did bring him up, Mr. A. told us something silly about Jones not looking like a "communist, racist, Republican-hating radical."
Louis
My Grandma once said, "it is better to look foolish than to open your mouth and prove it". The press is entitled to cover the actions of our military up and until the time such coverage would place our troops and/or their mission at peril. The media does not have, and does not deserve total access to our operations. To advocate otherwise places the rights of journalists above everyone's freedom; including I might add, their own.
If our military retains "private jornalists" to get their side of the story out to the public what does that say about their opinions of your colleagues in the so-called MSM?
I find in interesting how these little leftist media touts like Louis bemoan our military and their actions in defense of freedom when they don't realize who would be the first to be killed in the event we lose these freedoms.
Louis's article today speaks volumes in explaining why most active dutive and veterans of the military have little use for Louis and his fellow travelers.
Pot, meet kettle!
"manipulating the press" - my God, man. You should worry about the press manipulating the public! Your friends in the MSM do it every day in defense of Obama.
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The press of today is of no resemblance of the press of yesteryear. During the Bush administration, the MSM was actively working against the best interests of this country.
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If your man, Obama is holding you back, then maybe you should look inward.
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Country First!!!!!!