JackST0RM
07-22-2003, 10:11 AM
Is anyone else a bit disgusted besides me that Pvt. Lynch received a BRONZE STAR? WHAT meritorious service? Her equipment malfunctioned so her convoy took a wrong turn...then they were ambushed and her vehicle crashed, thus she sustained injuries! She didn't go out fighting in a hail of bullets while wounded! It really makes me sad that the media can't see past this propaganda which has so many holes in it right from the start - she is NOTa hero. It dimishes the courage and valor of so many veterans before her who rightfully earned the Bronze Star in previous wars. It just plain cheapens the honor of it all. http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif
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Jessica Lynch Due Home After Media Hype on Heroism
Tue July 22, 2003 07:45 AM ET
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By Deanna Wrenn
PALESTINE, W.Va. (Reuters) - Jessica Lynch, the wounded Army private whose ordeal in Iraq was hyped into a media fiction of U.S. heroism, was set for an emotional homecoming on Tuesday in a rural West Virginia community bristling with flags, yellow ribbons and TV news trucks.
But when the 20-year-old supply clerk arrives by Blackhawk helicopter to the embrace of family and friends, media critics say the TV cameras will not show the return of an injured soldier so much as a reality-TV drama co-produced by U.S. government propaganda and credulous reporters.
"It no longer matters in America whether something is true or false. The population has been conditioned to accept anything: sentimental stories, lies, atomic bomb threats," said John MacArthur, the publisher of Harper's magazine.
Jessica Lynch Due Home After Media Hype on Heroism (http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;js essionid=ETD0A1RBK0H 50CRBAEKSFFA?type=to pNews&storyID=3132107)
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Jessica Lynch Due Home After Media Hype on Heroism
Tue July 22, 2003 07:45 AM ET
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By Deanna Wrenn
PALESTINE, W.Va. (Reuters) - Jessica Lynch, the wounded Army private whose ordeal in Iraq was hyped into a media fiction of U.S. heroism, was set for an emotional homecoming on Tuesday in a rural West Virginia community bristling with flags, yellow ribbons and TV news trucks.
But when the 20-year-old supply clerk arrives by Blackhawk helicopter to the embrace of family and friends, media critics say the TV cameras will not show the return of an injured soldier so much as a reality-TV drama co-produced by U.S. government propaganda and credulous reporters.
"It no longer matters in America whether something is true or false. The population has been conditioned to accept anything: sentimental stories, lies, atomic bomb threats," said John MacArthur, the publisher of Harper's magazine.
Jessica Lynch Due Home After Media Hype on Heroism (http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;js essionid=ETD0A1RBK0H 50CRBAEKSFFA?type=to pNews&storyID=3132107)