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If Only War Reporting Were More Like Sports Reporting - Early Warning

I didn’t comment on the William Arkin comments earlier this year. The guy is just so obviously a Class A Tool™ that I wouldn’t have known where to begin.

I’ve also been trying to tone down the rhetoric and profanity level here in an effort to provide more thoughtful and intelligent discussion and analysis. That said, sometimes profanity is exactly the right thing.

Fuck you Arkin. Fuck you with a dead dog’s dick.

Now, on to the thoughtful analysis.

Mr. Arkin says (in wishing that war reporting was more like sports coverage):

For the super-fans who can actually afford to go to the games, or who commit their lives to the Sox, the professional reporters are hardly the enemy. These are people who can’t get enough news and analysis. They depend on the news media for commentary and amplification and insight; they study and memorize the statistics.

These are the critical thinking skills that can get one hired as a journalist at a national news outlet, eh?

Well, to continue the poorly constructed sports metaphor, see if you can get a glove on this curve-ball there Bill. The Milbloggers are not analogous to the fans, the Milbloggers are analogous to the players, you fucking moron. Care to walk down into any Major League dugout and ask how the players feel about sports journalists? Are the players really turning to sports writers for analysis, insight and amplification? Of course not, you imbecilic fucking dolt, they are playing the game that the media is only writing about. In your little metaphor the fans are analogous to the political hacks, bureaucrats, media watchers, and special interest groups, since they are truly the only people that look to MSM war reporting for insight, amplification, and enlightenment about the war.

The rest of us look to people that actually fucking know something.

Did I mention how you should go fuck yourself? I did? Oh, well, go fuck yourself twice.

Tool.

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